But the advance is given little chance. His supporters had even loudly demanded military intervention at the weekend.
Brazil’s right-wing populist head of state Jair Bolsonaro has filed a complaint against the results of the presidential election at the end of October. A corresponding request for an extraordinary review of the vote was received by the electoral authority TSE on Tuesday. According to broadcaster CNN Brasil, the incumbent wants the results of some electronic voting machines to be declared invalid. A statement from the TSE was initially not available.
However, the advance was given little chance, since the authority had already ratified the outcome of the election. Out of the vote was the left politician Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva emerged as the winner. He is scheduled to take office on January 1st.
protests over the weekend
Thousands of supporters of the President-elect Bolsonaro protested against Lula da Silva’s election victory last week. They called on the military to intervene. In some cities such as Belo Horizonte and Recife, the demonstrators moved in front of barracks, as the Brazilian news portal “G1” reported on Tuesday evening (local time). had so far Bolsonaro not expressly conceding his defeat, but signaled that he would not stand in the way of the change.
Bolsonaro was recently largely submerged in social media. Many of his supporters do not want to accept Lula’s election victory. Because they suspect fraud because of the close election result, they repeatedly call for military intervention. Brazil’s navy, army and air force had rejected calls for action on Friday and pledged themselves to democracy. Tuesday’s demonstrations took place on a holiday commemorating the proclamation of the republic in 1889.
(APA/Archyde.com/dpa)