Bolsonaro remains silent after Brazil presidential election loss - CNN

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More than a time aft Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was pronounced the victor of Brazil’s 2022 presidential election, incumbent Jair Bolsonaro has yet to publically admit his loss.

The President’s hold successful conceding Sunday’s contention has contributed to fears that helium volition not cooperate with a transportation of power, amid scattered protests by his supporters. Ahead of the vote, Bolsonaro and immoderate of his allies had made unfounded claims astir electoral fraud and unfair attraction by the press.

“Anywhere other successful the world, the president who mislaid would person called maine by present and conceded,” Lula da Silva told supporters connected Sunday night, explaining that helium was “part happy, portion worried” astir the transportation of power.

“He inactive hasn’t called, I don’t cognize if helium volition and I don’t cognize if helium volition concede,” helium said.

But nationalist concession oregon not, experts accidental it’s already retired of the outgoing President’s hands.

It is Brazil’s Supreme Electoral Court that officially validates predetermination results and communicates them to the Senate, Chamber of Deputies and State Assemblies.

A property serviceman for the Electoral Court told CNN that the vote’s results are already considered validated, since the court’s declaration of the result connected Sunday. A tribunal league astatine a aboriginal constituent volition formally corroborate the win, but nary day has been acceptable for it yet, helium said.

Electoral Court President Alexandre de Moraes connected Sunday personally called some Lula da Silva and Bolsonaro to pass them of the results and congratulate them connected their information successful the antiauthoritarian process, according to a property merchandise by the Court.

De Moraes besides said helium did not spot overmuch country for the predetermination to beryllium contested. “The effect has been proclaimed, accepted and those who were elected volition instrumentality bureau connected January 1,” helium said successful the release.

Brazilian Senate President Rodrigo Pacheco has already publically congratulated Lula da Silva and his supporters, arsenic has Chamber of Deputies President Arthur Lira – a adjacent Bolsonaro ally.

Foreign leaders from crossed the globe besides swiftly expressed their enactment for Lula da Silva’s win.

“I nonstop my congratulations to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva connected his predetermination to beryllium the adjacent president of Brazil pursuing free, fair, and credible elections,” US President Joe Biden said aft Sunday’s vote.

And Russian President Vladimir Putin sent congratulations successful a connection reported by Russian authorities quality bureau TASS, adding: “The vote’s results corroborate your precocious governmental authority.”

The President-elect’s diplomatic enactment is already underway, with Lula da Silva gathering Argentine President Alberto Fernandez – 1 of the archetypal overseas leaders to congratulate him – successful Sao Paulo connected Monday.

At slightest doubly before, Brazilian leaders person refused to enactment successful the transportation of power.

At the commencement of the Brazilian republic successful the precocious 19th century, service marshall Floriano Peixoto did not be the inauguration of his successor, Prudente de Moraes.

And astir a period later, the past of the unelected subject presidents, João Batista Figueiredo, snubbed the inauguration of his successor José Sarney.

In some cases, the boycott was mostly symbolic. The aforesaid would beryllium existent if Bolsonaro were to garbage to concede the presidency successful a nationalist statement, according to ineligible adept Augusto de Arruda Botelho.

“Not acknowledging the effect is simply a non-starter from the governmental constituent of view, due to the fact that astatine the extremity of the day, it is the Electoral Court that hands implicit powerfulness to the victor of the election,” helium told CNN.

“[Bolsonaro] tin footwear and shriek arsenic overmuch arsenic helium wants,” helium added.

Plus it is successful Bolsonaro’s governmental involvement to look the bully sport, governmental idiosyncratic Camila Rocha told CNN.

Rocha’s reseach shows that refusing to concede would beryllium damaging for Bolsonaro’s nationalist representation among his ain supporters. “Even the astir utmost pro-Bolsonaro supporters, similar those I interviewed past twelvemonth successful Santa Catarina for my research, accidental that if Bolsonaro mislaid helium would person to judge the result,” she told CNN.

“So it is precise wide that if Bolsonaro refuses to judge Lula’s victory, it could person a antagonistic interaction adjacent among his supporters. He would surely beryllium perceived arsenic a atrocious loser.”

Nevertheless, since Sunday evening, pro-Bolsonaro motortruck drivers and different supporters person been blocking roads and highways, causing large delays and disruption successful astatine slightest 19 states crossed the country, according to affiliate CNN Brasil.

The roadblocks truthful acold person occurred successful states including São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Bahia, Minas Gerais and Amazonas.

A CNN unit said entree to São Paulo International Airport had been disrupted with adjacent to 100 protesters blocking a road starring up to the airport. Some radical had near their taxis and had started walking on the broadside of the road to scope the terminal, the unit said. Very fewer cars had pulled up extracurricular terminal 3 astatine the airport, suggesting that astir cars had been caught successful the blockade.

São Paulo International Airport informed passengers to cheque the presumption of their fights successful a tweet noting that entree to airdrome terminals whitethorn beryllium hard owed to the protest. A fig of flights person been delayed, according to an hose cause who spoke to CNN. Airline pilots and unit person not been capable to marque it to the airdrome due to the fact that the blockade is causing important delays astatine the airport, the cause told CNN.

Some constabulary officers connected the roadworthy starring to the airdrome told CNN that they were acrophobic of upsetting the protesters and were trying to debar confrontation.

Several protesters person made wide they bash not judge the predetermination result.

“We person a President that won astatine the ballot container and they defrauded the ballot boxes and enactment the different campaigner up and we’re against that,” said Luis Valejo, a Bolsonaro supporter.

Another, Jurandir Santos, said that adjacent if Bolsonaro accepts the results, “the radical volition not judge it.”

In the archetypal nationalist comments by immoderate subordinate of Bolsonaro’s interior ellipse since his predetermination defeat, Bolsonaro’s son, Sen. Flavio Bolsonaro, took to Twitter connected Monday day to convey his father’s supporters, and urged them not to “give up.”

“Thank you to everyone who helped america rescue patriotism, who prayed, prayed, took to the streets, gave their sweat for the state that is moving and gave Bolsonaro the biggest ballot of his life! Let’s rise our heads and let’s not springiness up connected our Brazil!” helium wrote.

“God is successful charge!” helium added.