{"text":[[{"start":10.36,"text":"Flávio Bolsonaro’s political party on Monday said it accepted the result of Brazil’s presidential election even as US President Donald Trump said he thought the vote had been “rigged”."}],[{"start":21.36,"text":"The Liberal Party, the biggest party in the Brazil’s Congress, said: “We recognise the presidential result” announced on Sunday, which showed Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as the clear winner."}],[{"start":32.56,"text":"Bolsonaro, who lost the run-off by more than three percentage points despite being a strong favourite in opinion polls, had said in the immediate aftermath of the vote count that he would seek to “annul” the result after a Supreme Federal Court judge extended voting by two hours on Sunday."}],[{"start":48.8,"text":"Bolsonaro on Monday said he would still seek to have Lula’s victory thrown out because of unspecified abuses committed during the campaign, but stopped short of questioning the results. “It was not me who lost, it was the system which won,” he said in a video posted online."}],[{"start":64.64,"text":"The statements constituted a way to back down from a direct challenge to the election results, which would have been the second presidential election in a row contested by the Bolsonaro family. Flávio Bolsonaro, 45, is the eldest son of Jair Bolsonaro, the former president who was sentenced last year to 27 years in jail for plotting a coup after he lost the 2022 election to Lula."}],[{"start":87.54,"text":"The current controversy stems from Justice Cristiano Zanin’s order on Sunday to keep polls open for an extra two hours after Lula’s campaign complained that shortages of buses had prevented people in some areas from voting. Zanin had worked as Lula’s personal lawyer before being appointed to the court."}],[{"start":104.8,"text":"Trump on Monday piled on to Bolsonaro’s initial claims of irregularities in the election result."}],[{"start":109.76,"text":"“It looked terrible to me, it looked like another rigged election, frankly,” the US president said. “Elections have to be indisputable and it looked very bad to me,” providing no evidence that the election had been rigged."}],[{"start":119.321,"text":"The US president’s comments come just over a week before the US midterm elections when polls predict his Republican Party will fare poorly."}],[{"start":126.98,"text":"The White House, which took a number of steps that were interpreted in Brazil as an attempt to help the Bolsonaro camp during the campaign, has yet to congratulate Lula on the result of the election."}],[{"start":138.166,"text":"The US state department did not immediately respond to a request for comment."}],[{"start":141.72,"text":"Trump on Monday said he likes Lula and insisted the US did not take sides in the vote. “I get along with him very well, but the extension given was very strange,” he said."}],[{"start":152.98,"text":"Political analysts said any attempt by Bolsonaro to question the results would have been complicated by the fact that his team also requested a two-hour extension for polling stations on Sunday, citing areas that had been affected by heavy rainfall."}],[{"start":166,"text":"The argument would also be weakened by the size of Lula’s winning margin, which showed the incumbent with 4.4mn more votes than his challenger. Data from Brazil’s electoral court, which runs the election process, showed only 34,330 people voted during the extra hours that polling stations were open."}],[{"start":185.34,"text":"Kassio Nunes Marques, head of the electoral court, said problems with public transport and extension of voting hours had not impacted the result when he declared Lula the winner on Sunday evening. Nunes Marques is also a judge on the supreme court, where he was nominated by Jair Bolsonaro."}],[{"start":202.16,"text":"Elon Musk also used his X account to cast doubt on the election result in a series of posts on Monday, saying in one that the “math does not add up”."}],[{"start":211.32,"text":"Most governments in the region, including those with rightwing leaders, have acknowledged Lula’s victory."}],[{"start":216.32,"text":"Abelardo de la Espriella, who endorsed Bolsonaro and was elected as Colombia’s president in June after a Maga-style campaign, said the result has to be “respected because it is sacred”."}],[{"start":226.96,"text":"“President Lula and I have great and profound political and ideological differences, but we agree on something fundamental: Brazil and Colombia need each other,” he said."}],[{"start":237.68,"text":"Bolsonaro on Monday said the federal police had ordered him to hand over his passport because his brother had days earlier suggested he should leave the country if he lost the election. The agency did not immediately respond to a request for comment."}],[{"start":252.08,"text":""}]],"url":"https://audio.ftcn.net.cn/album/a_1793084323_5803.mp3"}