22 November 2022 at 23:49 Bolsonaro disputes the election results and asks for votes to be scrapped Jair Bolsonaro disputes the loss in Brazil’s presidential election and asks the electoral authorities to scrap votes cast via most of the country’s electronic voting machines. Bolsonaro’s lawyers point to a software error that independent experts the AP news agency spoke to say had nothing to do with the validity of the election results. If the votes are scrapped, Bolsonaro will be left with 51 percent of the remaining votes, and thus be re-elected, Marcelo de Bessa, the lawyer who submitted the complaint on the president’s behalf, said on Tuesday. The country’s electoral authority has already declared ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as the election winner, and prominent politicians, including several Bolsonaro allies, have said that the election result is final. In cities around Brazil, Bolsonaro supporters have refused to do the same, while Bolsonaro has not explicitly said he lost. However, his chief of staff has said that the president has approved the transition to a new government. (NTB/AP)
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