Bolsonaro’s claims of election fraud after losing the first round in Brazil have raised worries that he may attempt a coup or incite political violence.
The second round of the election will take place on October 30., with some polls showing him ahead of Bolsonaro by as many as 14 points.Analysts following the election developments in Brazil.
Meanwhile, Bolsonaro has been pushing baseless lies about the integrity of the election for months, wrongly stating that voting machines in the country cannot be trusted to deliver a true outcome. On Sunday, after polling lower than da Silva in the election’s first round, Bolsonaro claimed without evidence that election administrators had rigged the outcome.. “Or at least there’s one they don’t want, which is me.
Bolsonaro’s claims have raised worries that he may attempt a coup, or at the very least incite political violence akin to the violence that followed Donald Trump’s loss in 2020, when a mob of the former president’s loyalists attacked the U.S. Capitol building in an effort to disrupt the certification of President Joe Biden’s win.it’s unlikely there will be a coup attempt in Brazil, much less a successful one.
“We are not suggesting that Bolsonaro would lead a traditional coup, with tanks rolling down the street, as happened in 1964,” Erika Robb Larkins, associate professor of anthropology at San Diego State University, and Lucas Louback, a human rights activist, wrote
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