Brazil's Bolsonaro says he won't hand over presidency if there is vote fraud

[Nevilledog]

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RIO DE JANEIRO, July 1 (Reuters) - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Thursday he would hand over power to whoever wins next year's presidential election cleanly - but not if there is any fraud.

His comments will do little to dispel the concerns of his critics, who fear that the far-right former army captain will not accept any election loss in next year's vote. Bolsonaro is almost certain to face his political nemesis, former leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Polls show Lula ahead.

"I'll hand over the presidential sash to whoever wins the election cleanly," Bolsonaro said in a weekly address via social media. "Not with fraud."

Since his 2018 election victory, Bolsonaro has made baseless allegations of voter fraud in Brazil, which critics say could lay the groundwork to challenge upcoming elections in the same vein as his political idol, former U.S. President Donald Trump.

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Just saw a poll that had Bolsonaro trailing by 30 points......

[Fullduplexxx]

1. And of course if I lose it was because there was fraud

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Cut from the same cloth as TFG. Big surprise..........NOT. n/t

[doc03]

3. So he will pull a Trump. nt

[Initech]

4. Oh goody, same shit, different country.

[lagomorph777]

5. That's so last-year. He's out of style.

[gulliver]

6. Such a great example Trump and the Republicans have set.

[WHITT]

7. Deja Vu All Over Again

[moondust]

8. It's just too easy

for these power-hungry enemies of democracy to cry fraud and incite their mobs. Any claims of "fraud" must be proven with concrete evidence that has not been "manufactured" by their mobs.

[ColinC]

9. Beat the idiot by 30 points and the only fraud he will be able to prove is himself.