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Rachel Hagan

Protestors burn tyres and set up huge roadblocks after Bolsonaro loses Brazil election

Demonstrators unhappy at the Brazilian election results were pictured burning tyres and blocking main roads in protest against the country's new leftist leader.

“The cars crossed the BR [Brazilian highway]. They did not accept the election decision and locked everything up”, one person said in a video in the Santa Catarina city of Palhoça.

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva gained 50.9 percent and Jair Bolsonaro at 49.1 percent, with some two million votes separating the two.

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