Far-right senator and now former presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro said he would not accept Brazil’s election results following incumbent Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva triumph in Sunday’s runoff. 

The Liberal Party (PL, in Portuguese) candidate questioned the decision to extend voting by two hours on Sunday and warned that he would formally seek to have the election annulled.

Flávio Bolsonaro, son of former President Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2022) — who is in prison for attempting to overturn the 2022 elections and kill Lula — said that “it is impossible to accept the results of these elections.” 

He claimed that a “dirty trick” had led to Da Silva’s victory, even though his own party had also requested an extension of voting hours, albeit for different reasons.

“What happened today was not normal; it was even unacceptable,” Bolsonaro said during a brief speech at the PL’s headquarters on Sunday night, after the vote count was complete.

According to the Supreme Electoral Court, President Da Silva won with 51.8% of the vote, while Bolsonaro trailed by 4.4 million votes, with........

© Buenos Aires Herald