{"id":124559,"date":"2022-11-01T12:52:43","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T07:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=124559"},"modified":"2022-11-01T12:52:45","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T07:22:45","slug":"lula-da-silva-defeats-bolsonaro-to-return-as-brazils-president-for-third-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/lula-da-silva-defeats-bolsonaro-to-return-as-brazils-president-for-third-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Lula da Silva defeats Bolsonaro to return as Brazil\u2019s President for third time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Lula da Silva defeats Bolsonaro to return as Brazil\u2019s President for third time: <\/strong>Brazil\u2019s electoral authorities say Luiz Incio Lula da Silva of the leftist Workers\u2019 Party has defeated incumbent Jair Bolsonaro to become the country\u2019s next president<strong>. <\/strong>With 98.8 per cent of the votes tallied in the runoff vote, da Silva had 50.8 per cent and Bolsonaro 49.2 per cent, and the election authority said da Silva\u2019s victory was a mathematical certainty. Da Silva&#8217;s inauguration will take place on January 1, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/category\/daily-quiz\/daily-quiz-october-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>October 2022 Current Affairs Quiz<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Da Silva the country\u2019s former president from&nbsp;<strong>2003-2010<\/strong>&nbsp;has promised to restore the country\u2019s more prosperous past, yet faces headwinds in a polarised society. His victory marks the first time since&nbsp;<strong>Brazil\u2019s 1985<\/strong>&nbsp;return to democracy that the sitting president has failed to win reelection. The date of his inauguration is set for January 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Da Silva is credited with building an extensive social welfare programme during his 2003-2010 tenure that helped lift tens of millions into the middle class as well as presiding over an economic boom. The man universally known as Lula left office with an approval rating above 80 per cent; then&nbsp;<strong>US President Barack Obama called him the most popular politician on Earth.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lula da Silva defeats Bolsonaro to return as Brazil\u2019s President for third time: Brazil\u2019s electoral authorities say Luiz Incio Lula da Silva of the leftist Workers\u2019 Party has defeated incumbent Jair Bolsonaro to become the country\u2019s next president. With 98.8 per cent of the votes tallied in the runoff vote, da Silva had 50.8 per [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":124560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4982],"tags":[622,58],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-124559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-november-2022","tag-brazil","tag-international-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124561,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124559\/revisions\/124561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124559"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=124559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}