Brazil’s presidential election is headed for a runoff vote later this month after neither of the nation’s top two candidates managed to secure enough support on Sunday to claim an outright victory.
Brazil’s election authority announced on Sunday that a second round of voting was a mathematical certainty.
While former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the left-wing former president of the country, did pull in the most votes overall in the election on Sunday, according to officials, he still fell short of the more than 50 percent valid votes needed to prevent a run-off against conservative incumbent Jair Bolsonaro….