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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Terry Spencer,Eleonore Hughes and Nicholas Riccardi

Bolsonaro defends tenure, questions Brazil election defeat

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Only a few weeks after his supporters stormed the seat of his country's government, former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Friday expressed bafflement at how he could have lost October's election, then smiled silently as a crowd of supporters cried, “Fraud!”

He did not directly address the Jan. 8 assault on the buildings housing Brazil’s Congress and Supreme Court during his appearance in Miami before a conservative group tied to former U.S. President Donald Trump.

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