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Fl\u00e1vio Bolsonaro abandoned plans to challenge the result of Brazil\u2019s presidential election, while his Liberal Party went a step further and formally conceded defeat to reelected President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva.<\/p>\n
In a statement signed Monday by its president Valdemar Costa Neto, the party recognised the election result while criticising the increase of public spending in the run-up to the vote and its potential impact on the race.<\/p>\n
The statement marks a sharp retreat from Bolsonaro\u2019s initial response to Sunday\u2019s vote, when he said he would seek to have the election annulled.<\/p>\n
Bolsonaro\u2019s decision to drop that challenge was initially confirmed by a member of his campaign. A second person said the campaign had already known the challenge was unlikely to succeed but had kept it alive as a way to rally supporters. Both spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren\u2019t authorised to discuss the matter publicly.<\/p>\n
Bolsonaro had said he would seek to have the election annulled after the Supreme Court ordered voting hours extended by two hours. Both his campaign and Lula\u2019s had requested the extension. According to electoral authorities, just over 34 000 votes were cast after regular voting hours, a negligible number compared with Lula\u2019s roughly 4.4 million-vote margin of victory.<\/p>\n
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In a social media video posted late Monday afternoon, Bolsonaro said he would now seek to have Lula\u2019s ticket disqualified, another long-shot strategy with little chance of success. He said the case would centre on what he described as false information and the use of public funds for measures announced in the final weeks of the campaign, which he called \u201cvote buying.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI wasn\u2019t the one who lost. The system won,\u201d Bolsonaro said.<\/p>\n
Lula\u2019s campaign didn\u2019t immediately respond to a request for comment on Bolsonaro\u2019s allegations.<\/p>\n
Bolsonaro also said he would organise the opposition to Lula\u2019s government, pointing to the strength of his Liberal Party in both houses of Congress.<\/p>\n
\u201cI will bring together the elected lawmakers and senators to organise our strategy and turn the lower house and the Senate into our fortress against the barbarity that is already taking shape with four more years of Lula,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
In the same video, Bolsonaro said he had visited his father, former President Jair Bolsonaro, on Monday morning. The elder Bolsonaro is under house arrest in Brasilia for attempting a coup after his own 2022 election loss. Fl\u00e1vio said that after the meeting, he was served an order by the Federal Police requiring him to surrender both his regular and diplomatic passports and informing him that he was barred from leaving Brazil.<\/p>\n
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Fl\u00e1vio Bolsonaro said the order was issued by Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, the same judge who sentenced his father to 27 years in prison. Bolsonaro said the measure followed comments by his brother Eduardo, who said on a podcast that Fl\u00e1vio should leave Brazil if he lost the election.<\/p>\n
In the same ruling, Moraes barred Fl\u00e1vio from contacting lawyer Willer Tomaz, according to a person familiar with the matter. The two are under investigation on suspicion of involvement in a money-laundering scheme. Both have denied wrongdoing.<\/p>\n
The order wasn\u2019t public, and the Supreme Court didn\u2019t immediately respond a request for comment.<\/p>\n
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