Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has won an unprecedented fourth term after defeating Senator Flávio Bolsonaro in Sunday's presidential runoff, completing another comeback after imprisonment and political defeat. The 80-year-old Workers' Party leader secured 51.79% of valid votes on Sunday, according to Brazil's Superior Electoral Court (TSE), overturning a first-round deficit against the son of former president Jair Bolsonaro.
Lula's latest victory marks another dramatic chapter in a political career that has spanned more than four decades and included both electoral triumphs and imprisonment. After serving two terms as president from 2003 to 2010 and returning for a third term in 2023, he is now set to become Brazil's first four-time president when he begins his new term in January 2027.
