Brazil's presidential election will head to a runoff between Jair Bolsonaro and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. See potential bias and similarities in coverage from NPR, dcexaminer and BrazilianReport: Bolsonaro Lula
Brazil's presidential election sparked a second round of voting after neither major-party candidate received more than 50% of the votes.
With more than 99% of the vote counted, former president and left-wing candidate Luiz Inacio “Lula” da Silva led incumbent right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro with 48.4% of the vote, according to results released by Brazil’s Electoral Superior Court. Bolsonaro received 43.2% as of Sunday evening. “We have a second round ahead where everything becomes the same, the [television advertising] time for each side becomes the same. And now, we are going to show it better for...
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