Show Notes
The first round of the Brazilian presidential election had been expected to result in a relatively comfortable victory for Lula. Instead the results on October 4th had Lula on just forty-five percent of the vote - two percentage points behind Flávio Bolsanaro. Since the restoration of Brazilian democracy no candidate who failed to win the first round had ever prevailed in the second - and far-right candidates had won victories in legislative races across the country.
But on Sunday Lula and his campaign beat the odds and achieved a remarkable turnaround - winning nearly 52 percent of the vote, with more than 64 million Brazilians coming out to vote for Lula and the Brazilian Worker's Party. To explain the extraordinary election result PTO was joined by Ben Fogel.
Notes:
Lessons From Lula’s Historic Victory - Benjamin Fogel: https://www.thenation.com/article/world/lula-brazil-election-2026-flavio-bolsonaro-victory/
Lula’s Leap Into the Future - Andre Pagliarini: https://tribunemag.co.uk/2026/10/lulas-leap-into-the-future
Lula’s Final Chapter: https://www.equator.org/articles/brazil-lula-elections-results
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