Flavio Bolsonaro flees Brazil after election loss, US says will grant visa
Summary
A senior U.S. State Department official said the Trump administration would issue visas to Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro and his family after reports that he had left Brazil following his presidential election loss. The reports came a day after Brazil’s Supreme Court ordered him to surrender his passports in a money-laundering probe; Bolsonaro denied wrongdoing and had said he would stay in Brazil.Key Facts
- Flavio Bolsonaro lost Brazil’s presidential election by more than 4.4 million votes.
- A senior U.S. State Department official said the administration would issue visas to Bolsonaro and his family.
- Brazil’s Supreme Court ordered Bolsonaro to surrender his passports as part of a probe into alleged money laundering.
- Bolsonaro denied wrongdoing and said he would remain in Brazil and lead the opposition.
- Bolsonaro initially refused to accept the election results and sought to have them annulled.
- His party said on Monday that it accepted the election results.
- Donald Trump questioned the result, saying it looked like another rigged election.
- The article says no evidence had emerged that the vote was marred by malfeasance.
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