Brazil election looks rigged, says Trump
US President Donald Trump said on Monday that leftist incumbent Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's surprise win in Brazil's presidential vote "looked like another rigged election," although the party of defeated right-winger Flavio Bolsonaro later acknowledged the result. The son of former president Jair Bolsonaro, Flavio Bolsonaro has refused to concede defeat in Sunday's presidential election, saying he would seek the annulment of Lula's victory after the Supreme Court extended voting by two hours. Later on Monday, however, Bolsonaro's Liberal Party said it acknowledged the runoff result in a statement signed by the party's head Valdemar Costa Neto. "We recognise the presidential election results," Costa Neto said. "But we believe the issues raised need to be properly clarified." Bolsonaro, who has not commented publicly since his party's statement, said earlier on Monday he would comply with a federal police order to hand over his passports following a visit to his father, who is under house arrest, and denied he was planning to flee Brazil. Trump did not endorse Bolsonaro ahead of the vote, although Reuters has reported that officials from his State Department led a campaign to return the Bolsonaros to power. "I didn't take sides, but it looked like another rigged election," Trump told reporters,...
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