‘Democracy always’: Lula vows no return to dictatorship in Brazil after election win
Summary
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won Brazil’s presidential runoff against Flávio Bolsonaro, securing 51.79% of the vote to Bolsonaro’s 48.21%. At a rally in São Paulo, Lula pledged to defend democracy and said dictatorship and fascism would not return; leaders from several countries recognized his victory, while Bolsonaro rejected the result.Key Facts
- Lula received 64.2 million votes, compared with Flávio Bolsonaro’s 59.8 million.
- Lula won after trailing Bolsonaro in the first round, a reversal the article describes as unprecedented since Brazil returned to democracy.
- Lula told supporters, “Democracy always, dictatorship never again. Democracy always, fascism never again.”
- Flávio Bolsonaro rejected the result and called Lula’s victory “sacanagem,” a Portuguese term the article translates roughly as “bullshit.”
- Leaders from Mexico, Spain, Chile and Peru, as well as the European Commission and China, recognized or congratulated Lula on his win.
- The article says the United States had faced accusations of using economic and diplomatic pressure to influence the election in Bolsonaro’s favor.
- The result is expected to affect environmental policy and the Amazon rainforest, according to the article.
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