Flavio Bolsonaro Says Brazil Federal Police Asked for His Passports
Flavio Bolsonaro said he will comply and denied plans to flee as he faces a passport order tied to Supreme Court investigations.
- On Monday, Federal Police officers ordered Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro to surrender his passports and barred him from leaving Brazil, citing an alleged ruling by Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes.
- The restriction followed Sunday's presidential runoff, where incumbent President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva defeated Flavio Bolsonaro with 51.7% of the vote; Bolsonaro has refused to concede, citing alleged irregularities in voting hour extensions.
- Flavio stated the measure stems from remarks by his brother, Eduardo Bolsonaro, who suggested on a podcast last week that the senator should flee Brazil if he lost the election.
- Denying any intention to flee, Flavio denounced the passport order as "a clear attempt to intimidate me" in a social media video, vowing to comply and defend himself.
- Authorities have not officially confirmed the order, which occurs amid high judicial scrutiny of the family; former President Jair Bolsonaro is currently serving a 27-year house arrest sentence for plotting a coup.
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After allegations were made against the results of Brazil's presidential election, the country's judicial system took action against the defeated candidate.
Flavio Bolsonaro has been banned from leaving Brazil and must surrender his ordinary and diplomatic passports within 24 hours, the senator who lost the presidential runoff to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said. Bolsonaro said in a video that he was stopped by federal police on the street after visiting his father, Jair Bolsonaro, at his home in Brasilia. He said officers handed him an order to surrender his travel documents. “I was told in the middl…
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Brazil's Flavio Bolsonaro says court banned him from leaving country
RIO DE JANEIRO — Flavio Bolsonaro on Monday said a Supreme Court justice had banned him from leaving Brazil, one day after he lost the country's presidential election and refused to concede defeat. The right-wing senator received 48.2 percent of the vote compared to 51.8 percent for incumbent Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. "I was served with an order to hand over my passports and I am also banned from leaving the country," he said in a video posted …
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