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Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro

‘It’s over’: Jair Bolsonaro reportedly accepts defeat in Brazil election

Jair Bolsonaro in Brasilia
Jair Bolsonaro (right) in Brasília on Tuesday. Photograph: Eraldo Peres/AP

Jair Bolsonaro has reportedly thrown in the towel after his presidential election defeat in Brazil on Sunday, telling members of the supreme court: “It’s over.”

He went silent for nearly two days after being beaten by the leftwing former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the vote. When Bolsonaro finally appeared before the cameras on Tuesday afternoon, he failed to explicitly concede defeat or congratulate his vanquisher.

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