Brazil's Bolsonaro signals cooperation with transfer of power, but does not concede election defeat

[brooklynite]

Source: CNN

Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday said he would “follow all the orders and prescriptions of the constitution” during a short and ambiguous speech at the presidential palace in Brasilia, after days of silence following his election loss to the leftist former leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

He did not explicitly concede defeat, though the event appeared to signal his intention to cooperate with the transfer of power. Speaking after the President, his chief of staff Ciro Nogueira said that he would work with the new government and is waiting for Lula da Silva’s transition team to begin the handover.

“Contrary to what my opponents say I always played within the limits of our constitution,” Bolsonaro said, without congratulating Lula da Silva, who won with 50.9% of the vote, while Bolsonaro gained 49.1%.

The President-elect received the most votes in Brazilian history – more than 60 million votes, breaking his own record from 2006 by almost two million votes, according to the election authority’s final tally.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/01/americas/bolsonaro-brazil-elections-protests-intl-latam/index.html

[iemanja]

1. Good news

That he doesn't concede or congratulate Lula reflects badly on his character, but at least he isn't pulling a full Trump.

[PlutosHeart]

2. He still has time.

Seriously. How can anyone trust any any any friend of Rump? I would not. Just look at us!

[Jack the Greater]

4. So basically he is pulling a Trump...

...and leaving it up to his fascist supporters to trouble the waters of democracy.

[iemanja]

5. Trump never cooperated with the transition.

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He refused Biden access to just about everything.

[certainot]

6. this fascist owes his election to talk radio and said so, praising the 'brazilian limbaugh' with

with his previous success

maybe the fact that that brazilian limbaugh, broadcasting from Virginia and who can be seen in two or more pics with steve bannon, called COVID a hoax and then died of it made a difference?

when are liberals and democracy-lovers all over the world going to wake up about talk radio and foreign use of it

[J_William_Ryan]

7. Whether it's Trump or Bolsonaro,

the neo-fascist right is consistent in its contempt for democracy and the will of the people.