BrasíliaLula overturned a first-round deficit with 4.4 million votes to spare.
No first-round loser had won Brazil’s runoff since direct elections resumed in 1989.
Abstention fell from 21% to 19%, and judges added 2 hours of voting after Lula’s campaign alleged bus shortages.
Flávio Bolsonaro is seeking annulment, but the Supreme Court president has confirmed the result.
Lula, 81 on Tuesday, faces a Congress dominated by the right.
How each outlet framed it
drawn from 40+ reports worldwide
- Euronews English leans favorable
- frames the result as a rebuke to Trump's tariffs, tying Lula's win to the EU-Mercosur deal
- TRT World leans favorable
- lists a global roll call of leaders, including Sanchez's 'progressive comeback' line ahead of Spain's November vote
- Albanian Daily News
- notes this is the first time since 1988 a first-round loser went on to win the presidency
- Dawn
- frames the win as staving off a conservative regional wave backed by Trump, and notes Bolsonaro's 27-year jail term
Sources: Euronews English, TRT World, Albanian Daily News, Dawn