President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva clinched victory out of thin air in Brazil’s weekend election, spurring his challenger to deny the results and the United States to demur from commenting on them.
Lula won reelection in the results published overnight Monday, claiming 51.7% of the vote against Flavio Bolsonaro’s 48.2% share. It was an unbelievable comeback given that Lula was trailing Bolsonaro by over 2 million votes in the first round of the election, which also included multiple other candidates running to the president’s right.
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