Who is Lula? From ex-worker and prisoner to Brazil’s president again
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Election process
On the face of it, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has done the impossible one more time – within three weeks he overturned defeat in first-round voting to gain re-election as Brazil’s president.
It was no mean achievement for a man who before his first successful run at the post in 2002 had tried three times unsuccessfully.
When he became president in 2003, he came to office as the first leftist leader of Brazil in nearly half a century.