Brazil’s outgoing president Jair Bolsonaro helped foment social tension after losing the country’s elections, and his followers should support a change in administrations, Vice President Hamilton Mourao said Saturday.
“Leaders who were supposed to reassure and unite the nation” instead allowed silence to “create a climate of chaos,” Mourao said during a televised address that didn’t identify Bolsonaro by name.
Mourao, who had a public falling out with Bolsonaro during the administration, urged the president’s supporters to accept the results of the election and fight to preserve democracy.
