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Lula wins fourth Brazil term with 51.8% of vote
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Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva won a fourth term with 51.8 percent of the vote against Flavio Bolsonaro. The 80-year-old incumbent recovered after calling his first-round campaign the most disorganized in decades. His runoff push used youth rallies and a WhatsApp channel that grew from 60,000 to nearly 11 million followers in about three weeks.
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What It Means For You
- Lula returns for another presidential term after defeating the Bolsonaro family candidate.
- The campaign highlighted a two-day weekly rest reform and pre-runoff welfare payments.
- He also pledged higher Bolsa Familia payments and household debt relief.
What's Happening
- Students organised runoff rallies in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and Belo Horizonte.
- Political scientist Eduardo Grin called youth mobilisation fundamental to the win.
- Lula enlisted young influencer politicians and bought his first cellphone for outreach.
How The Runoff Was Framed
- Supporters cast the race as a choice against a Bolsonaro family return.
- Grin said the Workers' Party reconnected with younger voters in the runoff.
- Lula compared the street mobilisation to Brazil's 1984 push for elections.
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