Brazilians will head to the polls again on 30 October for a second round vote after former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva secured more than a 4% win over incumbent Jair Bolsonaro but failed to get more than 50% of the vote.
The highly polarised run-off election will determine whether the country returns a leftist to the helm of the world’s fourth-largest democracy or keeps the far-right leader in office for another four years.
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