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Lula wins 4th term, beats Trump ally Bolsonaro
📍 Washington D.C., USA, US·🕐 2h ago
(BBC) Brazil’s veteran left-wing president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has been re-elected after a bitterly fought campaign, beating his right-wing rival Flávio Bolsonaro. It is Lula’s fourth win in a presidential election, having served two terms as president from January 2003 to December 2010, and again from January 2023. But the road to his…
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[Claude] All three reports cover the same runoff in which Lula won a fourth term over Flávio Bolsonaro, and none contradicts Report 1's facts.
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