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 Brazilian Supreme Court headquarters where he confirmed to the judges that the elections were «over».
«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 the Supreme Court judge Luiz Edson Fachin, reports the portal G1.
Bolsonaro has gone to the court headquarters after receiving an invitation from the Supreme Court judges, to whom he has reaffirmed his defeat in the agitated elections of this Sunday, after which Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will return to preside Brazil more than twenty years later.
The Supreme Court justices have appreciated that Bolsonaro has recognized his defeat, that he would comply with the Constitution and even that he went so far as to criticize in a veiled manner the blockades that some of his followers have been erecting on several highways in recent days to protest the election results.
«The Supreme Court justices reiterated (…) the importance of the recognition by the President of the Republic of the final result of the elections, with the determination to start the transition process, as well as the guarantee of the right of free movement on the occasion of the blockades on Brazilian highways,» states the statement issued by the justices.
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 labeled him over the years as «anti-democratic» and assured to have always moved «within the four lines of the Constitution».
Although he described the road blockades 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».
