• The electoral campaign before the second round of elections was extremely fierce
• In the end, the winner was Lula da Silva, who received over 60.3 million votes. His competitor, Jair Bolsonaro, collected 58.2 million votes
• Lula won the first round of the election, which took place less than a month ago, but polls ahead of the second round gave him only a slim advantage
• Congratulations to the new president, who returns to this post after 12 years, have already been sent, among others, to the presidents of the USA and France
• More important information can be found on the Onet homepage

Polling stations were closed at 5 p.m. local time (21 in Poland).

After converting results 100 percent. electoral commission, the winner of the presidential election was Lula, who obtained 50.9% of the vote. voice. Bolsonaro scored 49.1%. voice.

In the first round of the election, Lula da Silva won 48.4% of the votes. approvalwhile Jair Bolsonaro 43.2%.

“From January 1, 2023, I will lead 215 million Brazilians, not just those who voted for me. There are not two Brazils. We are one country, one people, one great nation,” Lula wrote just after the results are announced. .

Lula also immediately signaled what policy he intends to carry out.

“Brazil needs peace and unity,” he said in his first speech after the victory. “Brazil is ready to resume its leadership role in the fight against the climate crisis, protecting the Amazon forest above all. During my presidency, we managed to reduce deforestation in the Amazon by 80%. Now we will fight for zero deforestation.” he added.

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Just minutes after the announcement of the results of Sunday’s election victory, “which opens a new page in Brazilian history”, the French president congratulated Lula. “Together, we will join forces to meet many common challenges and renew the bond of friendship between our countries,” wrote Emmanuel Macron on Twitter.

“I congratulate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on the election of the President of Brazil following free, fair and credible elections. I count on cooperation” – reads the announcement of US President Joe Biden in response to the election result in Brazil.

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was born in 1945 into a farming family in northeast Brazil. At the age of nine, he moved to Sao Paulo with his mother and siblings, where he combined his studies with the work of a street vendor and a shoe store. He began his professional and political career in a steelworks where, in 1975, he took the post of president of the union of metal workers in the Sao Paulo region. He was imprisoned during the reign of the generals for leading the strikes.

In 1980, with other workers and intellectuals, he founded the Labor Party, of which he will run for president on Sunday. In 1986, he became a deputy of the Brazilian Congress for the first time, in 1989, 1994 and 1998 he ran for president, each time taking second place.

October 27, 2002 – victory in the second round with a majority of 61%. vote – was elected President of Brazil.

One of the president’s first decisions was to cut public spending. During his tenure, Brazil saw its public debt fall from 76% to 61%. GDP, lowering inflation by 12.5 percent. in 2002 to 3.1%. in 2006, i.e. a drop in the unemployment rate and an increase in the minimum wage. Good economic performance earned Lula re-election in 2006.

Internationally, Lula advocated for reform of international institutions which he said favored wealthy nations over developing nations representing the majority of the world’s population.

He was a friend of left-wing regional dictators: Fidel Castro, who ruled Cuba, and Hugo Chavez – the socialist president of Venezuela in 1999-2013. Castro supported Lula in all of his presidential campaigns, and Lula himself supported the Venezuelan president in his dispute with US President George W. Bush.

Lula left the presidency with public support reaching 90%. In 2017, he was found guilty of bribery and money laundering as part of a large-scale campaign against corruption at the intersection of politics and business. After more than 19 months in prison, he was released in 2019; In April 2021, Brazil’s Supreme Court upheld the overturning of Lula’s corruption judgments, allowing him to run for president the following year.

During the campaign leading up to the October elections, Lula stressed the need to increase social assistance, introduce a debt relief program, raise taxes for the wealthy and stop poverty. deforestation in the Amazon.