STORY: Cheering in the camp of Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva. According to official information, the left-wing politician won the presidential election in Brazil. However, with a narrow result. As the Supreme Electoral Court announced after counting almost all the votes, the challenger and former president achieved 50.9 percent in the runoff election on Sunday. Right-wing populist incumbent Jair Bolsonaro received 49.1 percent of the vote. His vote-out was celebrated by Lula fans in Sao Paulo. “Four years, over, over, my God!” Lula himself promised that he would rule the country for one and for all Brazilians. In his own words, Lula initially heard nothing from his opponent. “The defeated President should have called me to acknowledge my victory. So far he hasn’t called. I don’t know if he will or if he will admit it. Much like ex-President Donald Trump in the US, Bolsonaro has voiced unsubstantiated doubts about the reliability of the voting machines. According to insiders, the electoral authorities are preparing for the right-wing populist to contest the result. In the first ballot in early October, no candidate received more than 50 percent of the votes. After a long and aggressive election campaign, the The gap between the two camps in society is the widest it has been since the country’s return to democracy in 1985. Lula is due to begin his third term on January 1. He is faced not only with a struggling economy but also with an increasingly influential opposition. In this month’s parliamentary elections, Bolsonaro’s allies had increased and now form the largest bloc i m Congress.