Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will oversee a more divided Brazil
Protests by supporters of Jair Bolsonaro are just the beginning
In his victory speech on October 30th, after a white-knuckle election, Brazil’s president-elect, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, confessed that he was “half happy and half worried”. Avenida Paulista, a buzzy street dominated in recent years by rallies in favour of Jair Bolsonaro, the far-right populist president, was awash in the red of the Workers’ Party, founded by Lula (as he is known). But the result was the narrowest since Brazil’s return to democracy in the 1980s: 50.9% to 49.1%, or just 2.1m votes.
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “Hallelula”
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