MADRID, 2 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Shortly after thanking the more than 58 million voters who placed their trust in him at the polls, the outgoing president, Jair Bolsonaro, went to the headquarters of the Supreme Court of Brazil where he confirmed to the judges that the elections “they finished”.
“The President of the Republic has used the verb to finish in the past tense, he has said finished. Therefore, we must look forward,” confirmed Supreme Court Judge Luiz Edson Fachin, reports the G1 portal.
Bolsonaro has gone to the courthouse after receiving an invitation from the Supreme Court judges, to whom he has reaffirmed his defeat in the hectic elections this Sunday, after which Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will return to preside over Brazil more than twenty years later. .
The Supreme Court judges have valued that Bolsonaro has recognized his defeat, that he would comply with the Constitution and even came to criticize in a veiled manner the blockades that some of his followers have been erecting on various highways in recent days to protest the results of the elections.
“The judges of the Supreme Court reiterated (…) the importance of the recognition by the President of the Republic of the final result of the elections, with the determination to initiate the transition process, as well as the guarantee of the right of free movement due to of the blockades on Brazilian highways,” says the statement issued by the magistrates.
Shortly before, Bolsonaro spoke publicly for the first time about his defeat in the second round of Sunday’s elections, almost two days after the results were known, promising that he would comply with the Constitution.
In his brief statement, the leader of the Brazilian far-right rejected those who have branded him “anti-democratic” over the years and claimed to have always moved “within the four lines of the Constitution.”
Although he described the roadblocks as a manifestation of “indignation” and “injustice” for “how the electoral process took place”, he asked that they take place in a “peaceful” manner to make it clear that they do not act like the left, whose methods “always harmed the population”.
