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Rachel Hagan

Brazil president Lula's five years under Bolsonaro - from prison time to resurrection

Brazil's far-right leader Jair Bolsonaro has been kicked out of office, as former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva beat him in the presidential elections.

The left-wing candidate won with 50.9 percent of the votes, and after being banned from running in the last presidential election in 2018 because he was in jail, it is an astonishing comeback.

The new leader was serving a 12-year corruption sentence, but was freed in 2019 after a supreme court ruling which infuriated followers of the far-right Mr Bolsonaro.

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