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Lula beats far-right President Bolsonaro to win Brazil election

The results bring to a close the most consequential election in Brazil in decades. Now, President-elect da Silva faces the huge task of reinvigorating Brazil's economy.

WEKU

Lula stages astonishing comeback to beat far-right Bolsonaro in Brazil election

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the former leftist president, has reclaimed the leadership and vowed to reunify his country

The Guardian - UK

Lula triumphs over far-right incumbent Bolsonaro in stunning comeback – as it happened

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Brazil election 2022: live results as Lula beats Bolsonaro to return as president

The Superior Electoral Court of Brazil has announced that Lula is elected president, after a nailbiting count that went to the wire. Find out how every state voted

The Guardian - UK

Brazil election: Lula’s challenge hangs in balance amid voter suppression claims

Tens of millions of progressives turn out in hopes of unseating Jair Bolsonaro from presidency after bitterly fought campaign

The Guardian - UK

‘Most important election in our lives’: Millions in Brazil go to polls in high-stakes presidential vote

Deep concern over fate of Amazon and fears of violence from Bolsonaro supporters as hard-right president challenged by left-wing former leader Lula

The Independent UK

‘He must be stopped’: emotions run high as Brazil’s voters go to polls

Jair Bolsonaro’s opponents look to momentous election to bring an end to far-right president’s ‘Brazilian catastrophe’

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Lula vs. Bolsonaro: Brazilians vote in nail-biter presidential runoff

Brazil's democracy — just over three decades old — is at stake, experts say.

Axios

Brazil votes in heated Bolsonaro-Lula presidential runoff

Brazilians vote Sunday in a polarizing presidential runoff election that pits an incumbent vowing to safeguard conservative Christian values against a former president promising to return the country to a more prosperous past.

France 24

Brazilians go to polls with Lula slight favourite to oust far-right Bolsonaro

Polls – which underestimated incumbent’s vote in first round – give Workers’ party leader 52% to 48% advantage

The Guardian - US

Brazilian voters go to polls to choose between Bolsonaro and Lula in run off

Brazilians began voting on Sunday in a polarizing presidential runoff election that pits conservative President Jair Bolsonaro against former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

WEKU

Brazil's polarizing Bolsonaro-Lula contest goes to voters

Brazilians are voting Sunday in a polarizing presidential runoff election pitting far-right President Jair Bolsonaro against his political nemesis, former leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

The Independent UK

Brazil presidential contenders in final push before vote

Brazilians decide their president for the next four years on Sunday, and the two remaining candidates are focusing last efforts in voter-packed areas in Brazil’s southeast.

Tribune News Service

Brazil president makes Argentina a campaign boogeyman

As a Brazilian living in Argentina, Luciana Taddeo says she spends ever-more effort rebutting ever-crazier rumors

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The Guardian - UK

Brazil election goes to the wire after ill-tempered final TV debate

Veteran leftist Lula da Silva holds slender poll lead over Jair Bolsonaro as national divide grows before Sunday vote

France 24

Brazil's Bolsonaro and Lula spar in bruising final debate before vote

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva faced off in a final debate before their runoff election Sunday, focusing mainly on economic hardships.

The Independent UK

Brazil's Bolsonaro, Lula face off in last debate before vote

Former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and incumbent Jair Bolsonaro faced off on Friday in the last debate before Brazil’s elections on Sunday

WEKU

This Amazon road led to vast deforestation. Brazil's Bolsonaro plans to pave it

President Jair Bolsonaro, who is running for reelection Sunday, has pledged to fully pave BR-319 and turn it into a kind of jungle expressway, raising alarm from environmental groups.

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Foreign Policy

How Team Biden Tried to Coup-Proof Brazil’s Elections

Sunday’s election in Brazil will be a test for more than Jair Bolsonaro’s integrity.

The Independent UK

Bolsonaro locking up farm votes, with boost from ex-minister

President Jair Bolsonaro's former agriculture minister has become the face of his campaign in Brazil's agribusiness heartland — a part of the country where the conservative incumbent appears to be leading his leftist rival, ex-President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

France 24

Brazil's Bolsonaro seeks to win over voters in pro-Lula northeast

In the run-up to this Sunday's presidential run-off in Brazil, both candidates are fighting for votes in the northeast of the country. The vast, poor and arid region is of strategic importance, as it has historically been a breeding ground for the left. The northeast is the only region where…

WEKU

What to know about Brazil's election as Bolsonaro faces Lula, with major world impacts

Brazilians head to the polls Sunday to vote in a presidential election that is testing the world's fourth-largest democracy and could have a critical impact on the fight against climate change.

France 24

Brazil’s education system in crisis as Bolsonaro takes aim at universities

Over the last four years, President Jair Bolsonaro’s government has made steep budget cuts to Brazil’s public universities. In the run-up to the second and final round of presidential elections, his government announced a new freeze on funds, angering students anew. The fields of education, culture and environmental studies have…

The Conversation

Labor retains large lead in Victorian Resolve poll four weeks from election; also leads in NSW

The Victorian state election will be held in four weeks, on November 26. A Resolve poll for The Age, conducted October 20-24 from a sample of “more than 800”, gave Labor a 59-41 lead over the Coalition.

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Brazil’s election: Bolsonaro’s return would cost us all

Editorial: The planet cannot afford a second term for the far-right president who has resurged in the polls

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