Bolsonaro attacks Brazil's election system in briefing of diplomats

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro looks on during a session of the National Congress to decree amends to the constitution to bypass the country's spending cap and boost social benefits, in Brasilia, Brazil July 14, 2022. REUTERS/Adriano Machado

President Jair Bolsonaro invited the diplomatic corps on Monday to hear his charges that Brazil's election system was open to fraud ahead of October elections in which he is trailing in a bid for a second term.

"The system is completely vulnerable," he told some 40 diplomats invited to his residence in an unprecedented briefing three months before a general election.