<P> General elections were held in Brazil on 6 October 2002 , with a second round on 27 October . After three failed attempts , Workers ' Party leader Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva succeeded in a presidential election . Nevertheless , he did not manage to obtain the majority of valid votes in the first round ; this led the presidential election to a second round , which Lula won with 52.7 million votes ( 61.3 % of the total ) , becoming at the time the second most voted - for president in the world after Ronald Reagan in the 1984 United States presidential election . </P>
<P> General elections were held in Brazil on 6 October 2002 , with a second round on 27 October . After three failed attempts , Workers ' Party leader Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva succeeded in a presidential election . Nevertheless , he did not manage to obtain the majority of valid votes in the first round ; this led the presidential election to a second round , which Lula won with 52.7 million votes ( 61.3 % of the total ) , becoming at the time the second most voted - for president in the world after Ronald Reagan in the 1984 United States presidential election . </P>
who was elected president of brazil in 2002
who was elected president of brazil in 2002
Workers ' Party leader Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Workers ' Party leader Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva