Brazil’s leftist former leader Lula da Silva, who has promised to focus on poverty and unemployment amid the country's economic crisis, will face President Jair Bolsonaro in a runoff vote after winning the first round WSJWhatsNow
SÃO PAULO—Former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva took the most votes in Sunday’s first round of Brazil’s presidential elections, but President Jair Bolsonaro’s better-than-expected performance means the two will face each other again in a runoff vote at the end of the month.
Mr. da Silva, a standard-bearer of the Latin American left who is widely popular among the poor despite having been jailed on a corruption conviction in 2018, clinched 48.2% of the vote. The tally was just shy of the majority he needed to win outright, with 99.1% of votes counted Sunday night, according to Brazil’s electoral court.