Skip to main content
Back to Show
PBS News Hour

Brazil's former leftist leader defeats far-right president

Brazil will have a new president come January and he knows the job well. Former two-term President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva beat incumbent Jair Bolsonaro by two million votes in Sunday's closely-watched runoff election. Special correspondent Jane Ferguson reports with producer Charles Lyons. This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center.