{"id":658285,"date":"2026-10-27T05:38:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T05:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/658285\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T05:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T05:38:14","slug":"bolsonaros-party-accepts-brazil-election-after-trump-calls-vote-rigged-elections-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/658285\/","title":{"rendered":"Bolsonaro\u2019s party accepts Brazil election after Trump calls vote \u2018rigged\u2019 | Elections News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The political party of Senator Flavio Bolsonaro<\/a> has acknowledged the result of Brazil\u2019s presidential run-off, despite the right-wing candidate pledging to annul the outcome.<\/p>\n

On Monday, Valdemar Costa Neto, the leader of the right-wing Liberal Party, issued a statement saying his political group had accepted the outcome of the vote.<\/p>\n

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Still, he echoed Bolsonaro\u2019s concerns about the circumstances surrounding the election.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe recognise the presidential election results,\u201d Costa Neto said. \u201cBut we believe the issues raised need to be properly clarified.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Sunday, Bolsonaro was defeated by left-wing incumbent President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva by a margin of more than 4.4 million votes.<\/p>\n

Bolsonaro has yet to formally concede. In a post-election speech, he called the election results \u201cunacceptable\u201d, citing a last-minute extension to voting hours.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will take legal action,\u201d he told supporters. \u201cI will request that these elections be annulled.\u201d<\/p>\n

An extension to Sunday\u2019s vote had been sought by the campaigns of both candidates \u2014 but for different reasons.<\/p>\n

Bolsonaro\u2019s camp had pointed to inclement weather that impeded some voters from reaching polling stations. Parts of southern Brazil, considered a right-wing stronghold, had experienced heavy rains on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Lula\u2019s campaign, meanwhile, pushed for longer voting hours after it accused some cities of limiting public transportation on election day.<\/p>\n

The left-wing leader\u2019s allies framed those reductions in service as an attempt at election interference, aimed at preventing Lula\u2019s working-class base from voting.<\/p>\n

Media reports indicated that Pablo Souza, a transportation official in the city of Salvador, was arrested on Sunday over the matter.<\/p>\n

In response to the petitions, Supreme Court Justice Cristiano Zanin agreed to extend voting by two hours.<\/p>\n

Whereas polls across the country had been slated to close at 5pm Brasilia time (20:00 GMT), Zanin\u2019s order allowed those that had not already closed to remain open until 7pm (22:00 GMT).<\/p>\n

Following his loss, Bolsonaro cried foul, saying that the justice\u2019s decision had disadvantaged his voters.<\/p>\n

He pointed to Zanin\u2019s relationship with Lula as support: Lula had appointed Zanin to the high court in 2023, and Zanin had formerly served as the left-wing politician\u2019s personal lawyer.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith a simple stroke of a pen, at the request of a former partner, [Zanin] changed the rules of the game mid-match,\u201d Bolsonaro said in his address on Sunday night.<\/p>\n

But experts signalled they were sceptical of Bolsonaro\u2019s claims of malfeasance.<\/p>\n

An analysis by Pedro Burgos, a professor at the Brazilian educational institute Insper, found that the extension resulted in 35,000 additional votes across the country, less than 0.03 percent of the total.<\/p>\n

That amount was far short of Lula\u2019s 4.4 million vote advantage. The incumbent won more than 64.25 million votes, compared with Bolsonaro\u2019s 59.83 million.<\/p>\n

Still, some right-wing allies rallied to Bolsonaro\u2019s support. US President Donald Trump, who has clashed with Lula in the past, told reporters that the vote seemed \u201crigged\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cElections have to be indisputable and it looked very bad to me,\u201d Trump said on Monday. \u201cIt looked like another rigged election, frankly.\u201d<\/p>\n

Still,\u00a0Trump<\/a> stopped short of suggesting that he would get involved on behalf of Bolsonaro, saying instead he \u201cdid not take sides\u201d in the election.<\/p>\n

Bolsonaro\u2019s refusal to accept his loss has raised concerns about whether he will abide by the democratic process or follow in the footsteps of his father, Jair Bolsonaro, who served as Brazil\u2019s president from 2019 to 2023.<\/p>\n

After his defeat to Lula in the 2022 election, the ex-president refused to acknowledge the outcome.<\/p>\n

Instead, he and his allies sought to overturn the results, including through a legal challenge<\/a>, and prosecutors accused him of plotting a coup to prevent the legal transfer of power.<\/p>\n

Jair Bolsonaro is currently serving a 27-year prison sentence<\/a> on coup-related charges.<\/p>\n

Separately, he was also barred from serving in public office for eight years, after a court found he had misused his public office to spread misinformation about the election.<\/p>\n

Flavio Bolsonaro, along with his siblings, has sought to have his father released. The family has denounced the elder Bolsonaro\u2019s trial as a case of political persecution.<\/p>\n

Still, it is unclear whether Flavio Bolsonaro will continue with his legal challenge over Sunday\u2019s election.<\/p>\n

The Brazilian news outlet Folha de S Paulo reported on Monday that legal advisers and political allies have convinced Bolsonaro to abandon his quest to have his loss annulled, citing the large margin of Lula\u2019s victory and its validation by the Supreme Court and election authorities.<\/p>\n

Bolsonaro<\/a> also announced on Monday that federal police asked him to hand over his passports amid speculation that he could leave the country following his loss.<\/p>\n

He said that he would comply with the order and had no plans to leave.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo withstand the chaos, I\u2019m going to organise the opposition,\u201d the right-wing politician said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The political party of Senator Flavio Bolsonaro has acknowledged the result of Brazil\u2019s presidential run-off, despite the right-wing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1083,54,4410,234,42,16632,43,238,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-658285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-brazil","tag-donald-trump","tag-elections","tag-government","tag-headlines","tag-latin-america","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}