How Brazil’s Lula Pulled Off an Upset No One Saw Coming

Wall Street Journal: “Never before in Brazil’s democratic history had a presidential candidate lost the first round and gone on to win the runoff. Abstention was at its highest level since 1998, and polls—which have historically overestimated da Silva’s support—showed him narrowly trailing Bolsonaro. The right had already begun selecting ministers for a new government.”

“But in one of the most dramatic electoral upsets in Brazil’s history, da Silva secured a fourth term with more than 64 million votes on Sunday, the most ever won by a presidential candidate in the country.”