From metalworker to Brazil's president: Lula da Silva's rise

After losing in the first round, Lula da Silva pulled off a historic comeback to be re-elected president of Braz i l in the second round. Back in the Palácio do Planalto, which he had never left, the leader of the Workers' Party (PT) defied unfavourable precedent: since 1989, the year when Brazil returned to direct presidential elections and introduced the two-round system**,** no candidate trailing after the first round had ever gone on to win the second. "I owe this to you.