Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva defeated Jair Bolsonaro in Brazilian Presidential elections.
Hopefully, Lula has learned from what happened last time, and realizes that the opposition will stop at nothing to destroy him. (Impeaching his successor on bogus charges, and engaging in a corrupt prosecution of Lula , with CIA assistance, etc.)
Lula needs to break the corrupt political elites, because otherwise, they will do this again.
It was closer than it should have been though:
Former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva reclaimed the office Sunday on pledges to defend democracy, save the Amazon rainforest and bring social justice to Latin America’s largest nation, defeating Brazil’s Trumpian incumbent in a remarkable political comeback some three years after he walked out of a prison cell.
The victory for Lula, who served two terms as president from 2003 to 2010, returns a leftist titan of the Global South to the world stage, where his progressive voice will stand in sharp contrast to that of right-wing — and now one-term — President Jair Bolsonaro. For Latin America, Lula’s return to the Planalto Palace adds the regional giant to a streak of wins by the left: Lula joins a club of leaders who have now bested the political right in Colombia, Chile, Peru, Honduras, Argentina and Mexico.
His win, which followed a slugfest of a campaign in a deeply divided country awash in fake news and explosive rhetoric, came amid allegations of official suppression of the vote by Bolsonaro’s allies in the police. Overall, the race sounded strong echoes of the 2020 showdown in the United States between Joe Biden and President Donald Trump. It pitted Bolsonaro, 67, a staunch Trump ally, against Lula, 77, a stalwart of the traditional left who moved to the center during the campaign. Lula’s strength lay in female and low-income voters — particularly the Northeast, heavily populated by people of color — but also in social progressives and power brokers disturbed by Bolsonaro’s authoritarian bent.
Lula has pledged a unity government to work on mending the breaches in Brazilian society of the kind that, in an era of toxic politics, have taken root in democracies across the globe. The margin — Lula won by less than two percentage points — was the closest in Brazilian history. It was the first time an incumbent ran for a second term and lost.
It was 50.9% to 49.1%.
A unity government is a very bad idea. Any members of the opposition he brings in will be dedicated to sabotaging his government.
The "conservatives" and the "center left" are two sides of the same coin, they just fight over whose turn it is, and both sides are terrified at the idea that government will work for people.
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