Brazil’s incumbent president and its ex-president face each other in an October 30 runoff election after neither managed 50% of the vote in an 11-candidate race Sunday. With 98.8% of the vote in, former President Luiz Inåcio Lula da Silva led with 48.1% to incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro’s 43.5% (per Politico).

Often compared to ex-President Donald J. Trump, Bolsonaro said as recently as September 18 that something must be “abnormal” if he didn’t win Sunday’s election in the first round, and had claimed to possess evidence of fraud, but never presented evidence to the electoral authority.

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