<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;">The race to be the next president of Brazil will go to a run-off after neither of the leading candidates received more than 50% of the vote in the first round.</span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">With nearly all votes counted, former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva received 48.3% while incumbent Jair Bolsonaro got 43.3%.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The pair will now face a second round on 30 October.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Voting was compulsory with more than 156 million people eligible.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Millions of people queued for hours to cast their votes and some polling stations stayed open past the scheduled closing time.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The result follows weeks of acrimonious campaigning in which the two main candidates often spent more time trading insults than laying out their policies.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">During a televised debate on Thursday, President Bolsonaro called Lula, who served time in prison after being convicted on corruption charges, an "ex-inmate" and a "traitor", while Lula labelled the president "a liar".</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Lula was not able to run in the last election in 2018 because he was in jail and barred from standing for office. BBC</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>