Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s firebrand right-wing presidential candidate, said on Friday that he would not accept the outcome of next month’s election if he loses, as polls suggest he will.
“From what I see in the streets, I won’t accept any result that is not my election,” the populist politician told Brazilian broadcaster TV Band.
Bolsonaro, a retired army captain, has led an ill-tempered campaign in what has been Brazil’s most polarizing election since the country’s return to democracy in 1985. He has previously said he doesn’t trust Brazil’s top electoral court and accused the rival left-wing Workers’ Party of resorting to fraud as its plan B in the upcoming vote.
