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Brazil’s far-right president is challenging the country’s election results, which saw him lose in October. President Jair Bolsonaro’s party, the Liberal Party, has argued that ballots from some machines were compromised during the second round and that the electoral court should reject them. Several news outlets reported today that Brazil’s supreme court justice has now given the party 24 hours to amend its petition to include the first round of October’s vote. The Liberal Party claims that if the votes that were compromised were discounted,  he would win re-election “with 51.05% of the valid votes, against 48.95% for Lula.” Another […]

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