Brazil is on edge as Jair Bolsonaro is quiet 24 hours after dropping to Lula

Bolsonaro didn’t make any public feedback Sunday night time after Brazil’s electoral courtroom mentioned he misplaced the election to Lula by lower than two proportion factors, the smallest margin for a presidential election within the nation’s trendy historical past. Native press reported that the president went to sleep previous 10 p.m. and on Monday morning was taken through motorcade from the official residence to the federal government palace in Brasilia.

Hypothesis is rising in Brazil’s capital concerning the president’s subsequent strikes and tv networks have organized cameras round totally different authorities buildings in case Bolsonaro decides to interrupt his silence. The president in current hours has met together with his Chief of Workers Ciro Nogueira and another ministers and advisers in addition to his oldest son, Senator Flavio Bolsonaro.

In a tweet on Monday afternoon, Flavio Bolsonaro thanked his father’s supporters and mentioned they wouldn’t surrender on Brazil, with out particularly referring to the result.

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Whereas his choice to not instantly acknowledge the end result isn’t a whole shock given his lengthy historical past of assaults towards Brazil’s electoral system, it’s hardly an indication that the institutional framework of the nation is about to be derailed. The heads of the nation’s senate and decrease home shortly accepted the election outcomes on Sunday night time together with the supreme courtroom justices and a few of Bolsonaro’s closest allies.

“He’s going to maintain working usually by way of the top of his mandate,” mentioned Tarcisio de Freitas, a former infrastructure minister below Bolsonaro who was elected governor of Sao Paulo state.

But the president’s silence can harm the transition course of. By legislation, Brazil’s authorities wants to arrange a proper handover course of proper after the vote, with the president-elect allowed to appoint 50 folks to satisfy officers and change authorities data. The outgoing administration sometimes coordinates with the staff of the following president throughout the next two months so there’s a clean transition when the brand new authorities takes over Jan. 1.

If Bolsonaro decides to not settle for the outcomes, it might halt “the standard authorities transition course of that begins proper after the election,” Rio de Janeiro-based political analyst Thomas Traumann wrote in a observe Monday. “Bolsonaro will use the following two months to handicap Lula’s administration from the start.”

In the meantime, Brazilian property have largely shrugged off preliminary issues, with shares of corporations anticipated to learn from Lula’s presidency rallying on Monday after the election whereas the true reversed earlier losses to publish the most important achieve among the many world’s main currencies.

Professional-Bolsonaro truck drivers have blocked some highways in a couple of dozen states in protest of Lula’s election win, in line with native media.

Whereas a method to attempt to discredit the election “is unlikely to yield a positive end result for Bolsonaro, that may be a tactic to maintain his base mobilized to oppose a Lula administration,” Eurasia Group analysts wrote in a report.