Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, 80, Brazil’s president and one of the most influential politicians in Latin America this century, achieved the comeback he had been seeking on Sunday. Lula defeated Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, 45, the political heir to the far-right Bolsonaro clan, with 51.7% of the vote to 48.2%, a margin of four million votes. He has become the first president in Brazil’s history to win after losing the first round of a presidential election.

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Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, 80, Brazil’s president and one of the most influential politicians in Latin America this century, achieved the comeback he had been seeking on Sunday. Lula defeated Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, 45, the political heir to the far-right Bolsonaro clan, with 51.7% of the vote to 48.2%, a margin of four million votes. He has become the first president in Brazil’s history to win after losing the first round of a presidential election.

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