PoliticsHow Lula’s successes in Brazil may have paved the way for his presidential defeat

Brazil’s veteran leftist President Luiz Inacio “Lula” da Silva trailed Flavio Bolsonaro, son of his far-right predecessor, in Sunday’s first-round presidential vote. Some analysts say Lula’s sweeping anti-poverty measures over two decades may have helped create a growing lower-middle class attracted to the far right’s promise to keep government out of people’s lives.

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