Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has been sworn in as the 39th president of Brazil following the 2022 Brazilian general election.
77-year-old Lula narrowly defeated Jair Bolsonaro in October to win an unprecedented third presidential term after a hiatus that saw him spend a year and a half behind bars on corruption convictions that were later overturned.
In his previous years as
Workers Party (PT) president from
2003 to
2010, the former union leader lifted millions of Brazilians from poverty during a commodity boom that boosted the economy..
Source : AIR