Bolsonaro rejects Brazil election result after Lula win

What BBN said about it

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorIt's eleven Eastern, eight Pacific. Brazil's presidential runoff is over, and the loser says he won't accept the result.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorThat's a lot to wake up to. Quick version for somebody who just got out of the shower?

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorLula beat Flavio Bolsonaro, and Flavio's father, former president Jair Bolsonaro, says he can't recognize the result and will seek annulment.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorOkay. And how close was it?

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorNPR says Lula took more than fifty-one percent to more than forty-eight.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe electoral court puts the margin at close to four point four million votes, and that's the number everyone is arguing about.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorFour point four million is a pretty big gap. So what's the complaint?

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe clock. A Supreme Court justice extended voting by two hours, and the decision came as the polls were about to close.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorTwo hours? That's like a restaurant staying open after the kitchen already cleaned the grill.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorBolsonaro put it this way, quote, I will not accept the rules being changed in the middle of the game.

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    Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorDid the court say the extension was allowed?

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorTheBlaze reports the electoral court's president, Kassio Nunes Marques, said no regulation authorizes an extension. He still defended the final result.

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    Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorHe defended it anyway?

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorYes. The rule isn't there, and the result stands. I'm reading it as flatly as I can.

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    Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorWho's the justice who made the call?

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorCristiano Zanin.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorTheBlaze notes he was Lula's personal lawyer before Lula nominated him to the Supreme Court, where he was sworn in in August twenty twenty-three.

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    Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorSo how did the first round go? Was this a surprise?

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorLula won the first round on October fourth with forty-seven point oh three percent, though Flavio Bolsonaro had led it, which his campaign calls a sign of a shifting race.

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    Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorFair is fair. Each side says the other one changed something.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe Bolsonaro camp says the rules moved. The court says the count is final. Those two things can't both be the plan.

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    Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorWhat happens next?

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorBolsonaro's team will seek annulment, and the next term begins January fifth, twenty twenty-seven. It would be Lula's fourth, not consecutive.

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    Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorSo the one-sentence version: Lula won big, and Bolsonaro is blaming a two-hour clock.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorTwo extra hours to vote, and the only people certain to use every minute of them are the lawyers.