Latest updates: polls suggest overall majority for Lula
Supporters and allies of Brazil’s ex-president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, are streaming into a hotel in downtown São Paulo hoping to celebrate a first round win in Brazil’s acrimonious presidential election.
Speaking to the Guardian as she arrived at the event, the president of Lula’s leftist Worker’s party (PT), said she was optimistic about their chances of returning to power and defeating the far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro.
“We feel confident … we feel real happiness. We have faced hard and difficult moments but we have prevailed through our resistance and our unflinching belief in our cause,” Gleisi Hoffmann said.
