Flavio Bolsonaro ‘will not give up’ after Brazil election results

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Oct 26, 2026
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It took hours and hours for Flavio Bolsonaro to come out
and say that he doesn't recognize
the results.
He said exactly this, I do not recognize this.
There is no way I can accept this outrage
that was committed against Brazil.
I will take legal action and I will not give up on Brazil.
What this is about is the following,
that about an hour before the polls were supposed
to close, first Lula da Silva, the president,
and then later Bolsonaro himself, asked for
an extension for two hours at the polling station
because a lot of voters had been unable
to show up to vote because of bad weather or lack of transportation.
There was a conflict between the electoral tribunal
and the Supreme Court.
One said, no, I won't give you more time.
The other one finally said yes.
But by the time the Supreme Court agreed to extend the voting period,
it was past the
closing time.
polls had been closed, and this is an electronic voting system,
which means that the buttons
had been pressed. There was no way to reopen the system here.
There is no manual voting
system. And so now what Bolsonaro is saying
is that he doesn't know how many thousands
or maybe millions of votes he might have had,
had the polls been open a little bit longer.
This is a very difficult argument,
but it's enough to make things more difficult for Lula
da Silva. This is something that happened four years ago,
when Flavio Bolsonaro's father,
Jair Bolsonaro lost narrowly to Lula
and then said that there had been fraud. He almost paralyzed
the country with his supporters
and then was eventually accused and found guilty of plotting
a coup against Lula da Silva.
And that was why he is now spending a 27 year prison sentence at home
under house arrest. So this is something like
a story we've heard before. We don't know how it's
going to end but this victory of Lula's
which was not expected is going to be
tarnished at least in the short term
by Flavio Bolsonaro whose political party
the extreme right-wing Liberal Party now controls both
the upper and lower house
which also will make things very difficult for Lula da Silva now in his
fourth non-consecutive term
