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Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a vocal critic Donald Trump, was reelected Sunday in a result that provides relief to critics of widening U.S. influence in Latin America.

With 100% of the vote counted, Brazil’s electoral court announced that the soon to be 81-year-old Lula had a lead of nearly 4.4 million votes over opponent Flávio Bolsonaro, giving him 51.8% of the total vote. Bolsonaro quickly refused to concede defeat and asked for the election results to be annulled after an evening of chaos at some polling places that followed a last-minute decision to extend voting by two hours.

Bolsonaro is the son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, whom Lula defeated to take the presidency in 2022.

Lula’s triumph bucks a regional trend of victories for right-of-center presidential candidates allied with Trump. It also means Latin America’s largest economy, with a GDP of $2.6 trillion per year, will likely continue defying Trump’s demands, despite the pressure of increased tariffs.

  • Gammelfisch@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    16 hours ago

    You Americans better fucking vote like the Brazilians. Congrats Lula and carry on exporting and filling the massive holes the MAGA fucknuts opened for you.

    • FirmDistribution@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      15 hours ago

      Unfortunately the majority of deputies and senators are from Bolsonaro’s party. Lula’s win was a huge victory, but we still have a lot to fight for here in Brazil.

      The good thing is that Lula’s party learned how to comunicate through social media, this helped him TREMENDOUSLY in his victory.

      • sportsjorts@lemmy.zipEnglish
        132·
        15 hours ago

        Good things democrats are running ads throwing trans people into the meat grinder for no reason. When they don’t even have to talk about trans people when they should be talking about the fact that Donald Trump has raped children and has ducked the ENTIRE economy. But Dems are going to do there best to try and shit brain themselves out of a sure fire victory.

        Edit: Also congratulations to Brazil from an embattled American.

        • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
          2·
          7 hours ago

          The DNC are essentially the controlled party outside of 2 people aoc and bernie, none in the DNC are willing to vote for something else, they want to still be apart of the grift of what the GOP has, Donor money.

        • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          4·
          10 hours ago

          My big worry is that since Dick Cheney passed away, who are the the Dems going to parade around on the campaign trail with and receive glowing endorsements from? Henry Kissinger and Adolf Hitler are also dead. Maybe they can get one of Trump’s kids to endorse them but that seems like a bit of a stretch.