The victory of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) in the second round of elections was confirmed by the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) and recognized by several countries and political parties.
Lula finished the first round behind Flávio Bolsonaro (PL), with a difference of just over 2.2 million votes.
Despite this, he achieved an unprecedented turnaround in the history of Brazilian presidential elections and ended the second round with 64.2 million votes (51.79% of valid votes), against 59.8 million (48.21%) for Flávio Bolsonaro.
The result, however, began to be questioned by opposition supporters. Informal reports and publications on social networks have fueled the thesis that voting in the second round would be "mathematically impossible" and that the differences between the results of the two stages would indicate possible fraud.
But do these claims stand up to analysis of the data?
In this video, we explain where the votes that allowed Lula's turnaround came from, what changed between the first and second rounds and what the data actually shows about the suspicions raised by the opposition.
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