Brazil's polarizing presidential election advances to second round runoff

Brazil's presidential election sparked a second round of voting after neither major-party candidate received more than 50% of the votes.

With more than 99% of the vote counted, former president and left-wing candidate Luiz Inacio “Lula” da Silva led incumbent right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro with 48.4% of the vote, according to results released by Brazil’s Electoral Superior Court. Bolsonaro received 43.2% as of Sunday evening.

“We have a second round ahead where everything becomes the same, the [television advertising] time for each side becomes the same. And now, we are going to show it better for the Brazilian population, especially the most affected class, the consequence of the ‘stay at home, we’ll see the economy later’ policy,” Bolsonaro said, according to CNN.