On the 25th, electoral authorities announced that leftist incumbent Luiz Inacio "Lula" da Silva (80) has been re-elected in the run-off of the presidential election in Brazil, a South American country. In his victory speech, President Lula said, ``(Brazil) will never accept being in someone's backyard.'' This is believed to be aimed at the US President Donald Trump's administration.

Meanwhile, right-wing candidate Flavio Bolsonaro (45), who won in the first round, called the result "impossible" and argued that it should be invalidated.

With 100% of the votes counted, Mr. Lula received 51.79% of the votes, beating Mr. Bolsonaro's 48.21%. The difference in votes was over 4 million votes.

BBC correspondent Iony Wells reports from Brasilia.

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