Monday briefing: Bolsonaro is down in Brazil’s election – but not out

Lula, pictured, and Bolsonaro will go to a second round in Brazil’s election after neither was able to win an outright majority. Photograph: Rodrigo Paiva/Getty Images

Good morning. Brazil’s left went into Sunday’s election hoping for an outright majority for their candidate Lula over Jair Bolsonaro, the far-right figure who has been Brazil’s president for the last four years.

At the very least, they hoped for a commanding margin and a sense of momentum going into a run-off between the two. And progressives around the world were watching for an emphatic repudiation of Bolsonaro’s presidency that would signal that the forces of extremism were in retreat. But it hasn’t worked out that way.