Lula da Silva wins second round of Brazilian presidential election

Leftist former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva won the second round of the presidential election in Brazil with 50.83 percent of the vote. According to the results of 98.9 percent of the ballot boxes opened published by the Supreme Electoral Court (TSE), Lula received 50.83 percent of the vote, while his opponent President Jair Bolsonaro received 49.17 percent. The TSE website sharing the election results stated that the election was mathematically complete and that unopened ballot boxes would not affect the outcome. Lula, who previously ruled Brazil for two terms, won the election by less than 2 percent. Lula shared the Brazilian flag on his Twitter account with the note "Democracy." Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will take over the presidency from Bolsonaro on January 1, 2023. From prison to presidency Lula da Silva Lula da Silva, 77, who served two terms as president of Brazil from 2003 to 2010, was imprisoned for a year and a half due to corruption cases filed against him, but entered the presidential race again when the cases were dropped. With his unionist roots, Lula da Silva, the first president of the Workers’ Party, won the love of Brazilians by helping to lift approximately 30 million Brazilians out of poverty through the social assistance he implemented. Lula da Silva stood out as a beloved leader until he stepped down as president on December 31, 2010, but corruption allegations against him and his party in 2011 cast a shadow over his name. Lula da Silva, who spent 580 days in prison due to corruption cases, was convicted in these cases, preventing him from running in the 2018 elections, which Bolsonaro won. Lula, who was released in November 2019, was allowed to participate in the elections after the Supreme Court dropped his sentences and corruption cases in 2021, ruling that the judge in charge of these cases, Sergio Moro, had been biased and politically motivated. Meanwhile, Sergio Moro, who served as Justice Minister in the Bolsonaro government from January 1, 2019 to April 24, 2020, resigned due to disagreements between them.