Conservative presidential candidate Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro announced on Monday that he will ask the nation’s top electoral court to annul the results of Sunday’s presidential election, which declared incumbent socialist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva the victor, citing various abuses of power.
\n\nLula, who turns 81 on Tuesday, officially won a fourth term in office on Sunday after losing to Bolsonaro in the first round of the presidential vote in early October. As Bolsonaro won with 47 percent of the vote, falling below the 50-percent threshold necessarily to avoid a runoff election, he and runner-up Lula were given another month to campaign for the October 25 election date.
\n\nWhile the ultimate vote showed Lula winning with upwards of 4 million votes, a decisive margin in Brazilian politics, the Bolsonaro camp cited a variety of irregularities, most prominently the decision by a justice on the Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF), the nation’s supreme court, to keep polling stations open past the 5 p.m. deadline in response to a Lula demand to do so in the northeast of the country citing transportation challenges for voters. The northeast is traditionally a socialist stronghold.
\n\nThe STF does not have the authority to interfere in election…
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