Flávio Bolsonaro calls for Brazil election result to be annulled
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Brazilian Senator Flávio Bolsonaro has called for the country’s presidential election result to be annulled, according to Al Jazeera, after a closely contested runoff against left-wing President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
The vote followed an acrimonious campaign dominated by corruption allegations and concerns about the conduct of social media platforms. Bolsonaro, the 45-year-old son of former president Jair Bolsonaro, had narrowly led Lula in some pre-election polling, though the margins were within the surveys’ margins of error.
In the campaign’s closing days, Brazilian electoral authorities examined allegations that Meta’s platforms had treated the candidates unequally. Lula’s campaign and monitoring groups cited restrictions on his Instagram promotions and search results they said favoured Bolsonaro. Meta denied political favouritism, attributing the problems to technical and automated enforcement errors. An electoral court ordered the company to demonstrate that unequal treatment had been corrected.
Bolsonaro also faced scrutiny over corruption and money-laundering allegations, which he denied. During a televised debate, he displayed the word “corrupto” on his palm in an attack on Lula, prompting supporters of the president to parody the gesture online by writing their professions and other descriptions on their own hands.
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