‘A day of hope’: Lula fans relish prospect of defeat for Bolsonaro

Supporters of leftwing frontrunner confident he will prevail as 156 million Brazilians cast their votes

Gabriela Leoncio has been waiting for the chance to free Brazil from Jair Bolsonaro for four years. On Sunday that chance came.

It's been a joke-slash-tragedy," the restaurant host, 29, said of the president's tumultuous far-right administration as she cast her vote against him in her country's most important election in decades.