Repost @apnews: Brazil’s electoral authority says that Luiz Inácio #Lula da Silva of the leftist Worker’s Party defeated incumbent Jair Bolsonaro to become the country’s next president. With 98.8% of the votes tallied, da Silva had 50.8% and Bolsonaro 49.2%, and the election authority said da Silva’s victory was a mathematical certainty. Da Silva — the country’s president from 2003 to 2010 — has promised to restore the country’s more prosperous past, yet faces faces headwinds in a polarized society. It is a stunning return to power for da Silva, whose 2018 imprisonment over a corruption scandal sidelined him from that year’s election, paving the way for Bolsonaro’s win. This is a developing story. Read more at the link in bio. https://www.instagram.com/p/CkW3zyXpdM7UQYmTM1R3trlwwALGas1H2VLtWw0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=