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Tiago Rogero in Brasília

Brazil: defeated Flávio Bolsonaro ordered to surrender passports

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Flávio Bolsonaro makes a statement in Brasilia after he lost the presidential runoff to Lula on Sunday. Photograph: Xinhua/Shutterstock

The far-right senator Flávio Bolsonaro was banned from leaving Brazil and ordered to surrender his passports just hours after his dramatic loss in the presidential election to the leftist president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

The ruling was issued by supreme court justice Alexandre de Moraes, the same justice who oversaw the trial of the senator’s father, the former president Jair Bolsonaro, for attempting a coup.

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