In the second round of Brazil’s presidential election, held amid extreme political polarization, the winner was 80-year-old incumbent President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a social democrat who secured 51.8% of the vote (64.2 million votes), defeating 45-year-old far-right neoliberal Flávio Bolsonaro, eldest son of former far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, who received 48.21% (59.8 million votes). The result ushers in yet another round of social democratic illusions about the possibility of a more humane capitalism.
