Union leader set for re-election in Brazil

Brazilians are poised to re-elect their first working-class president tomorrow, a poor farmer’s son who became a radical union leader and has governed as a centrist, stunning the world by stabilising a notoriously unpredictable economy and bringing millions out of poverty without raising taxes.

However, president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has been battered by corruption allegations almost certain to haunt him through a second four-year term.