Brazil’s presidential election will go to a run-off
Jair Bolsonaro did better than expected. Lula is still the favourite, but narrowly
FOR LUIZ INÁCIO LULA DA SILVA, Brazil’s leftist former president, it was a disappointing result. His supporters had dared to hope that Lula, as he is known, might win an outright majority in a presidential election on October 2nd. Instead the race was far tighter than most opinion polls had predicted. Lula attracted 48% of the vote, while Jair Bolsonaro, the hard-right populist incumbent, won 43%. The pair will face each other in a run-off on October 30th.
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “Bolsonarismo battles on”
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