How Lula turned four lessons from the presidential elections in Colombia into a comeback in Brazil’s Sunday runoff

How Lula turned four lessons from the presidential elections in Colombia into a comeback in Brazil’s Sunday runoff

On the night of last 4 October, Brazil’s left woke up to the scenario it had discredited for months. Far right senator Flávio Bolsonaro finished the first round in the country’s presidential election roughly two million votes ahead of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (47% to 45% of the valid votes). The polls that had shown the incumbent president comfortably ahead for most of the year had misled both his campaign and its supporters, and the …

Stop the Far Right: Mobilize to Elect Lula in the Runoff!

The first round of Brazil’s presidential election, on October 4, was marked by a resumption of the far right’s electoral offensive at the end of Lula’s third term. With 47.03% of the vote to Lula’s 45.16%, Flávio Bolsonaro led the first round, with an advantage of more than two million votes. The far right also […]

How Lula turned four lessons from the presidential elections in Colombia into a comeback in Brazil's Sunday runoff

Share articlePrint articleOn the night of last 4 October, Brazil's left woke up to the scenario it had discredited for months. Far right senator Flavio Bolsonaro finished the first round in the country's presidential election roughly two million votes ahead of President Luiz Inacio Lula da S