Brazil's Far-Right Presidential Candidate Says He Won't Accept The Election Results If He Loses
Brazil’s Far-Right Presidential Candidate Says He Won’t Accept The Election Results If He Loses
Jair Bolsonaro also accused former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of hatching a plot to retake power.
Severino Motta
Repórter do BuzzFeed News,
Posted on September 28, 2018, at 7:36 p.m. ET
Jair Bolsonaro, the far-right candidate leading the polls in Brazil’s presidential election, said on Friday that he will not accept any election results where he is not the winner.
“I do not accept election results other than my election,” Bolsonaro, who is running on the Social Liberal Party (PSL) ticket, said in an interview with local journalist José Luiz Datena from the hospital where he’s been recovering from a stab wound inflicted while campaigning earlier this month.
He elaborated that the only way his main opponent in the first round of the polls, the Workers Party (PT) candidate Fernando Haddad, could win is through electronic voting fraud.
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His statements closely resemble those of President Donald Trump in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election, when he assured his supporters that the election is “rigged.” Bolsonaro has been compared to Trump with growing frequency.
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