Lula Defeats Bolsonaro to Become Brazil’s President: Election Authority
SAO PAULO—Leftist Luis Inacio Lula da Silva on Sunday defeated conservative President Jair Bolsonaro to become the country’s next president, Brazil’s election authority said.
Lula won 50.9 percent of votes compared with 49.1 percent for Bolsonaro with over 99 percent of voting machines counted, which the Supreme Electoral Court said was enough to “mathematically define” the outcome of the race. The 77-year-old former president Lula’s inauguration is scheduled for Jan. 1.
Voting is electronic and the results were announced within two hours of polling stations closing at 5 p.m.
Foreign leaders from U.S. President Joe Biden to France’s Emmanuel Macron to Argentina’s Alberto Fernandez offered Lula messages of congratulations….