India, Oct. 26 -- Brazil's incumbent president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva won a historic fourth term as president on Sunday.

The 80-year-old defeated Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, the son of jailed former President Jair Bolsonaro, after securing 51.75% of the vote with over 98.76% of the votes counted, Brazil's electoral court confirmed. Bolsonaro secured 48.25% of the votes.

Lula, who first ran for president in 1989, had to wait till 2002 to taste his first victory, followed by another in 2006. The veteran politician was reelected in 2022 after a hiatus, that included 580 days in prison, for his third term.

The win on Sunday was historic. It is the first time since the military dictatorship ended in the country in 1985 that a candidate tra...