Timeline Sunday 27 October 2002

Events on Sunday 27 October 2002 1

• 2002 Lula elected president of Brazil Former union leader wins on his fourth attempt Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of the Workers' Party won Brazil's presidential runoff on 27 October 2002 with about 61 percent of the vote, after losing three previous elections. A former metalworker and strike leader, he was the country's first left-wing president in decades. Markets that had feared his victory steadied as he kept orthodox economic policies in his first term.