Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro pledged to accept the result of his country's October election after repeating unsubstantiated claims of past voter fraud during a broadcast on the country’s most-watched television news show.
The 40-minute Monday interview was wide ranging, with questions about the president’s fraught relationship with the top court, his response to the pandemic, his environmental and economic policies, as well as recent allegations of corruption in his government.
Asked whether he would respect the result of the election after raising questions about the integrity of the country’s electronic voting system, Bolsonaro initially said he would do so “as long as they’re clean and transparent.” After the show’s host insisted on the question, he said: “Let’s put an end to this? It’s resolved, let’s move to another question. We’ll respect the result of the vote.”
