Date uploaded: 2022-10-31 14:19:11
Twenty years after first winning the Brazilian presidency, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva defeated incumbent Jair Bolsonaro on Sunday in an extremely tight election that marks an about-face for the country after four years of far-right politics.
It is a stunning reversal for da Silva, 77, whose 2018 imprisonment over a corruption scandal sidelined him from the 2018 election that brought Bolsonaro, a defender of conservative social values, to power.
Yet he faces headwinds in a politically polarized society where economic growth is slowing and inflation is soaring.
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