Brazil: Second Round Of Presidential Elections Confirmed

With 96.93% of the polls counted from Sunday’s election, a runoff between candidates Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) and Jair Bolsonaro (PL) is confirmed.

Lula is in the lead, with 47.85% of the valid votes, having turned the race around when 70% of the votes had been counted. Bolsonaro is in second, with 43.7%. The...