Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won a fourth term as President of Brazil after securing 51.79% of the votes. Flávio Bolsonaro won 48.21% of the vote, resulting in a margin of 4.4 million votes between the two candidates.
Supreme Court President Kassio Nunes Marques confirmed the victory following a two-hour extension of the polls on Sunday evening. Lula's team requested the extension because voters in Bahia and São Paulo could not reach polling stations due to a lack of buses.
The campaign of Bolsonaro also sought an extension because of heavy rain in São Paulo and the south. Lula secured 45% of the votes in the first round on 4 April, while Bolsonaro won that round with 47%.
Thirty-three million people did not vote in the first round, and the abstention rate fell from 21% to 19% between the two rounds. The new term for Lula begins on 5 January 2027 and will last until 2030, by which time he will be 85 years old.
Lula was previously jailed for over 18 months for a corruption scandal. Bolsonaro refused to recognize the result and called for it to be annulled.
Lula said the result was a "loss for negativity, lies" and declared "long live democracy". He added that Brazil "will not accept being anyone's backyard".
Ecuador President Daniel Noboa Azin congratulated Lula, while European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen also offered congratulations. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called the win a "great victory".
French President Emmanuel Macron said the two nations should work "in service of a more just world". South African President Cyril Ramaphosa called the victory one for the "global south and progressive forces throughout the world".
Bolsonaro's Liberal Party currently holds 121 out of 513 deputies and 28 out of 81 senators. Public debt in the country exceeds 80 percent of GDP.
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