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Luiz Incio Lula da Silva
Environmentalists, Indigenous people and voters supporting their causes were important to Luiz Incio Lula da Silva's election as Brazil's new president.
Bolsonaro repeatedly stoked doubt about the reliability of the nations electronic voting system in the run-up to the vote.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is contesting his defeat in the October election and calling on the electoral authority to annul votes cast on more than half of electronic voting machines used.
Brazil will return to the protagonist role it previously had when it comes to climate, to biodiversity."
WHAT'S HAPPENING
As this year's U.N. climate summit gathers, South America's largest economy is preparing to move on from its outgoing climate-denier president.
The far-right leader didn't directly mention the results, but his chief of staff said that the transition to leftist Luiz Incio Lula da Silva would begin.
The right-wing president who has sought to undermine faith in Brazil's elections still hasn't spoken since his Sunday defeat to leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
Brazilian voters rejected President Jair Bolsonaro on Sunday in a race defined by the right-wing leader's threats to undermine the world's fourth-largest democracy.
Far-right President Jair Bolsonaro and leftist challenger Luiz Incio Lula da Silva were close with half the votes counted in a race where democracy is on the line.
President Jair Bolsonaro has made the jersey an emblem of Brazil's far right. Lula da Silva, his rival in Sunday's election, wants to take back it and other national symbols.
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