Lula don win Brazil runoff against Flavio Bolsonaro with 51.75% of di votes

Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva don win anoda term for office, beating right-wing Senator Flavio Bolsonaro for Sunday runoff election.

Official results put Lula for 51.75 percent of di votes and Bolsonaro for 48.25 percent, according to figures wey Vanguard report. Di result come after Bolsonaro lead for first round and for final opinion polls, wey show say di two men dey neck and neck.

Lula, wey go turn 81 on Tuesday, go serve fourth term. E bin be president before from 2002 to 2010 and e come back to office for 2022. E go be 85 when di new term end for 2030.

One chaotic voting day

Dem extend voting by two hours after one last-minute Supreme Court ruling. Lula camp bin ask for di extension, dey talk say dem pull buses from circulation for several cities and e stop people from reaching polling stations. Flavio Bolsonaro also ask for more time for some areas because of heavy rain, but im camp object to di country-wide extension.

"Either we win. Or we win. Consider yourself warned," pro-Bolsonaro lawmaker Nikolas Ferreira write on X as dem dey count votes, according to Vanguard.

Reaction for di capital mix. One dentist for Brasilia, Aurelio Junior, call di extension "a disgrace", while one Rio de Janeiro business owner wey dey back Lula, Jacqueline Maria Lima de Franca, talk say e "more than fair" because everybody suppose get right to vote.

Wetin di win mean

Di campaign expose deep divisions for one country wey get more than 200 million people. Almost half of voters back Bolsonaro, di son of former president Jair Bolsonaro, wey dey serve 27-year sentence under house arrest over one attempted coup after im 2022 election loss. Flavio Bolsonaro bin promise to free im father as im first act if dem elect am.

Lula campaign on expanding social protections and e present imself as guard against US interference. Im supporters hold rallies dey declare "Never Again Bolsonaro", dey point to di former president handling of Covid pandemic and cuts to public programmes. Deforestation for Amazon don fall to im lowest level for four decades under Lula, though climate change barely feature for di campaign.

Lula new term no go easy. E face Congress wey right dominate, slower economic growth and public anger over cost of living and insecurity. One Rio retiree, Tereza Cristina Ramos, talk say people "can barely afford to eat".

Lula victory also stop one rightward swing across Latin America wey see Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Peru shift right, with backing from US President Donald Trump.