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

https://mins.news/en/item/87143

- France 24, 2026-10-05 15:21 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20261005-how-lulas-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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