The second round of the Brazilian elections held this month showed a remarkable turnaround and comeback for sitting President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and his party. In the first round held earlier in the month, neither Lula nor his far-right competitor Flavio Bolsonaro had been able to secure more than 50% of the votes – and in fact Bolsonaro had got 2.2 million votes more than Lula. This result appeared to change something on streets of Brazil, and there was massive mobilisation in support of Lula both physically and online in the weeks before the second round. To talk about what happened and the significance of these elections, The Wire’s Managing Editor Jahnavi Sen is joined by Maiara Folly, Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Brazil-based think tank and civil society organisation Plataforma CIPÓ.