Breaking news: Left-wing ex-President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won the second round of the Brazilian presidential election with 50.83 percent of the vote. On the website where the Brazilian Supreme Election Court (TSE) shared the election results, it was stated that the election was completed mathematically and that the unopened ballot boxes would not affect the result.
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Lula, who previously ruled Brazil for two terms, won the election by less than 2 percent. Lula shared the Brazilian flag with the note “Democracy” on his Twitter account.
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will take over the presidency from Bolsonaro on January 1, 2023.
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Lula da Silva, 77, who served two terms as Brazil’s president in 2003-2010, was imprisoned for one and a half years due to corruption cases brought against him, and entered the presidential race again after the cases were dropped.
With his unionist roots, Lula da Silva, the first president of the Workers Party, won the love of Brazilians by helping about 30 million Brazilians get out of poverty thanks to the social benefits he implemented.
Lula da Silva stood out as a popular leader until he stepped down as president on December 31, 2010, but was overshadowed by corruption allegations against him and his party in 2011.
The conviction of Lula da Silva, who was imprisoned for 580 days due to corruption cases, prevented Bolsonaro from being a candidate in the elections he won in 2018.
Released in November 2019, Lula’s sentences and corruption cases were dropped by the Supreme Court in 2021, which ruled that the judge in charge of these cases, Sergio Moro, was biased and political in the cases, paving the way for his election.
Meanwhile, Sergio Moro, who served as Minister of Justice in the Bolsonaro government from January 1, 2019 to April 24, 2020, resigned due to the disagreement between them. (AA)