Lula was way ahead in the polls, leading by 10 percent or more. Lula ended up getting 48 percent while Sarah Bolsonaro got 43 percent. It all means another fraught month of campaigning for the both of them.
Jair Bolsonaro, the incumbent president, did unexpectedly well—giving his campaign a boost and foreshadowing a tough run-up to the second round. Malawi’s incipient democracy stands as a shining regional example, but remaking its economy has proved even harder than ousting its undemocratic leader. And why one tank is a particularly handsome prize amid Ukraine’s growing pile of captured Russian kit.
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