{"id":183446,"date":"2018-09-28T21:40:18","date_gmt":"2018-09-29T01:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=183446"},"modified":"2018-09-28T21:40:18","modified_gmt":"2018-09-29T01:40:18","slug":"brazil-candidate-says-will-accept-results-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/09\/28\/brazil-candidate-says-will-accept-results-wins\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil candidate says he will only accept results if he wins"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“From what I see in the streets, I won’t accept any result that is not my election.” (File Photo: Jair Bolsonaro\/Twitter<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

SAO PAULO \u2014 A leading Brazilian presidential candidate said Friday his opponents can only win by fraud and he will only accept the results of October’s elections as legitimate if he wins.<\/p>\n

Far-right hopeful and retired army captain Jair Bolsonaro did not provide any evidence that there will be vote fraud, but he said he doesn’t trust Brazil’s top electoral court.<\/p>\n

“From what I see in the streets, I won’t accept any result that is not my election,” the candidate told TV Band.<\/p>\n

Bolsonaro, who was hospitalized on Sept. 6 after being stabbed at a campaign event, leads polls ahead of the Oct. 7 vote, but is likely to face a tougher campaign in a Oct. 28 runoff against any other candidate.<\/p>\n

He has accused the rival Workers’ Party of having fraud as its plan B in the elections.<\/p>\n

Several recent polls suggest Bolsonaro would lose a runoff vote to former Sao Paulo Mayor Fernando Haddad, who is currently second in the race.<\/p>\n

Bolsonaro’s comments about vote fraud have been rejected by Brazil’s electoral court and the Organization of American States, which is overseeing the elections.<\/p>\n

Bolsonaro was expected to be released from hospital on Friday, but his departure was delayed because of fever and a minor infection.<\/p>\n

Instead, he spent most of his day denying a report in the magazine Veja in which an ex-wife accused him of fraud, tax evasion and stealing money she kept in a bank safe in Rio de Janeiro. His campaign pledged to take the magazine to court because of the report.<\/p>\n

Bolsonaro’s ex-wife Ana Cristina Valle said she was “hot headed” when she made the accusations. She is currently running for Congress using her ex-husband’s surname.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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