The lone motion of protestation came from Bolsonaro-supporting truckers who connected Sunday started blocking roads crossed the country. By Monday night, the Federal Highway Police reported 236 incidents successful 18 states, up from 136 3 hours anterior to that.
Bolsonaro’s rival, erstwhile president and left-leaning ex-union person Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won the runoff Sunday nighttime with 50.9% of the votes, to Bolsonaro’s 49.1%. It was the closest predetermination since Brazil’s instrumentality to ideology successful 1985.
Ricardo Barros, Bolsonaro’s whip successful the Lower House, told The Associated Press by telephone that helium was with the president Monday and that Bolsonaro was “still deciding” whether to talk astir the election’s results.
Much similar erstwhile U.S. President Donald Trump, whom Bolsonaro admires, the outgoing Brazilian person has repeatedly questioned the reliability of the nation’s physics voting system. At 1 constituent helium said helium possessed impervious of fraud, though helium provided nary evidence. And arsenic precocious arsenic past month, helium remarked that if helium didn’t triumph successful the election’s archetypal round, thing was “abnormal” — adjacent arsenic astir polls showed him trailing.
As clip passes and an expanding fig of planetary leaders publically admit da Silva’s victory, the president’s country for quality is dwindling, experts told The Associated Press.
Some of Bolsonaro’s closest allies indicated the same.
“The volition of the bulk seen connected ballots shall ne'er beryllium contested,” Lower House Speaker Arthur Lira told reporters Sunday.
Other Bolsonaro supporters who publically acknowledged da Silva’s triumph see Sao Paulo governor-elect Tarcísio de Freitas and Senator-elect Damares Alves, some of whom served arsenic ministers nether Bolsonaro, and Lower House whip Barros. Evangelical pastor Silas Malafaia, who has been a strident Bolsonaro supporter, called for God to bestow his “blessing” connected da Silva.
“He indispensable person respective plans for however to contention the results of the polls; the question is whether helium has the governmental enactment to spell up with these plans,” said Paulo Calmon, a governmental subject prof astatine the University of Brasilia. “He won’t person the enactment of Sao Paulo’s governor, of the Lower House, Senate, and helium volition person to look absorption from everyone.”
Calmon added that Bolsonaro had precocious said during an interrogation past period that helium would judge the effect adjacent if helium lost, but that congratulating da Silva would wounded his popularity among his astir extremist base.
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