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Lula beats Bolsonaro to win Brazil presidential election
Brazil President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was elected to a fourth, nonconsecutive term in the nation's presidential election , according to early results released Sunday evening. Why it matters: Lula's victory deals a setback to Brazil's right-wing populist movement and preserves a major counterwei
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What the coverage shows
Most outlets lead with Lula’s victory and frame it as a fourth term, with NPR, BBC, CBS, Axios and Democracy Now! all using that basic result. Several also foreground Bolsonaro’s reaction or aftermath: CBS says Bolsonaro rejects the results, NPR and Breaking Points say he refuses to concede, and the Guardian US and South China Morning Post both uniquely report that Flávio Bolsonaro has fled to the US. CNBC is the outlier, focusing instead on the fiscal and market implications of Lula’s win.
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