Lula celebrates after declared winner in election

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva says the Brazilian people is the real winner of the elections after the electoral authority said he had defeated incumbent Jair Bolsonaro to become the country's next president. With 98.8% of the votes tallied, da Silva had 50.8% and Bolsonaro 49.2%, and the election authority said the former president's victory was a mathematical certainty.
It is a stunning return to power for the 77-year-old former president, who led Brazil from 2003-2010. Da Silva is promising to govern beyond his party. He wants to bring in centrists and even some leaning to the right who voted for him for the first time, and to restore the country’s more prosperous past. Yet he faces headwinds in a politically polarized society where economic growth is slowing and inflation is soaring