Lula wins fourth term as Brazil's president; Bolsonaro vows to contest result

Brazil's leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva won a fourth term on Sunday, but rival Flavio Bolsonaro refused to accept the loss and announced he would seek to annul the vote. Lula secured 51.8 percent of the vote against Bolsonaro's 48.2 percent, a margin of about 4.4 million votes. The victory staved off a conservative wave in the region backed by US President Donald Trump. Bolsonaro, son of jailed former president Jair Bolsonaro, called the result "impossible to recognise" and a "dirty trick" after a Supreme Court extended voting hours. Lula, who turns 81 on Tuesday, will be 85 by the end of his term in 2030 and faces a hostile right-dominated Congress. His campaign focused on sovereignty against US pressure, while Bolsonaro pitched himself as more moderate than his father. Celebrations erupted in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo.