Pro-Israel Senator Flávio Bolsonaro has refused to accept his defeat by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Brazil's presidential runoff. He announced that his legal team will seek to have the vote annulled.
As JFeed reported, Lula won Sunday's runoff. The Associated Press reported that Brazil's electoral court gave him 51.8% of the vote with all ballots counted, a margin of nearly 4.4 million votes. The election authority had declared Lula the mathematically certain winner once the remaining ballots could no longer change the outcome.
The final Datafolha poll before voting showed the two candidates tied at 50 percent each among valid votes. This is the first time since Brazil's military dictatorship ended in 1985 that a candidate who finished second in the opening round has gone on to win the presidency.
Bolsonaro is the son of former President Jair Bolsonaro and has served in the Senate since 2019.
