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Brazil votes in Lula versus Flavio Bolsonaro runoff
BBC News·
Brazilians voted Sunday in a presidential run-off between President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, 80, and Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, 45. Bolsonaro led the October 4 first round. His father, former president Jair Bolsonaro, is serving a 27-year sentence for plotting a coup after losing in 2022. About 33 million people skipped the first round, the BBC said.
Prism
What It Means For You
- Flávio Bolsonaro voted early in Rio de Janeiro and said the time had come for real change.
- Lula told a Copacabana crowd the choice was about sovereignty between flags of Brazil and the United States.
- Results night plans put Lula in São Paulo and Bolsonaro in Brasília.
What's Happening
- BBC said no candidate trailing after a first round has later won Brazil's second round.
- Bolsonaro has pledged crime crackdowns, tax and spending cuts, and to free his father.
- Lula's camp organised large rallies to lift turnout after the first-round abstention.
What each side is arguing
- Jair Bolsonaro is under house arrest for ill health while serving the coup-plotting sentence.
- Trump called Bolsonaro's first-round result a very big victory.
- Lula seeks a fourth non-consecutive term; Flávio Bolsonaro is a right-wing senator.
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