Brazil election: Lula defeats Bolsonaro in presidential comeback

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Brazil election: Candidates rally supporters day before hotly contested vote

Brazil’s leftist candidate and election frontrunner, Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, held a rally on Saturday in the streets of Sao Paulo as a final campaign event before the election. Meanwhile, Brazil’s incumbent far-right President and presidential candidate, Jair Bolsonaro, led his popular thundering “motociatas” or motorcycle convoys on Saturday. A poll released on Saturday by MDA showed Bolsonaro has chipped away at half of Lula’s lead, which is now down to 7.9 percentage points. – Oct 1, 2022

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro took an early lead in the initial vote tally of Sunday’s presidential election, ahead of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, whose Workers Party usually gets stronger support in regions that are slower to report results.

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With 5.6% of voting machines counted, Bolsonaro had 53.2% of valid votes, compared with 46.8% for Lula, the Superior Electoral Court reported on its website.

(Reporting by Sao Paulo Newsroom)

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