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Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a vocal critic Donald Trump, was reelected Sunday in a result that provides relief to critics of widening U.S. influence in Latin America.

With 100% of the vote counted, Brazil’s electoral court announced that the soon to be 81-year-old Lula had a lead of nearly 4.4 million votes over opponent Flávio Bolsonaro, giving him 51.8% of the total vote. Bolsonaro quickly refused to concede defeat and asked for the election results to be annulled after an evening of chaos at some polling places that followed a last-minute decision to extend voting by two hours.

Bolsonaro is the son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, whom Lula defeated to take the presidency in 2022.

Lula’s triumph bucks a regional trend of victories for right-of-center presidential candidates allied with Trump. It also means Latin America’s largest economy, with a GDP of $2.6 trillion per year, will likely continue defying Trump’s demands, despite the pressure of increased tariffs.

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[–] usernameunnecessary@lemmy.zip 138 points 18 hours ago (10 children)

Why are these little fascists always sore loosers?

[–] MBech@feddit.dk 119 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

When you're against democracy, it would be weird to respect the democratic process. Fascists will always try to circumvent the rules as long as they're not in their favour, simply because fascists don't respect anyone but themselves.

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 64 points 16 hours ago

"If conservatives become convinced that they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism; they will abandon democracy."

[–] daannii@lemmy.world 11 points 12 hours ago

Cause they cheat and still lose and assume the other person must have cheated more.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 13 hours ago

Because they do all manner of funny business and fear being caught and ending up in jail when they're out of power or they can't hide behind a defense of "interference in elections" to avoid the Justice System investigating and prosecuting them.

I mean, just look at how Netanyahu is holding to power in Israel on the backs of over a hundred thousand dead Palestinians just to avoid the Corruption case against him.

[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 6 points 12 hours ago

The same reasons school yard bullies are quick to cry when someone punches them back

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 8 points 14 hours ago

If it's loose and sore seek medical help!

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 21 points 17 hours ago

Because their path to power always involves exploiting good will and benefit of the doubt.

They're all cry bullies, they act tough as long as there's no resistance, but if they don't win they'll say anything they think of to change a result or make an excuse.

The only reason they have any followers is people think they're strong. So they can never admit they lost, there's always has to be some bullshit to blame it on.

If they admit they're not the majority. There goes most of their followers, because their followers just want strength and to identify as a winner.

[–] Jiral@lemmy.world 13 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Oddly enough, some are more so than others. Take Orban for example. While not shy of all sorts of shady means to bend the election to his will, when all of that did not suffice anymore, he simply conceded defeat. Also the Serbian autocrat Vucic appears to accept defeat. Maybe he is afraid of facing the fate of other autocrats in case he is trying to overthrow anything.

[–] Marthirial@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

Wrong question. We already know the answer to that question. The key here is how Brasil fights back to squash Trumpism from their democracy. We may learn something.

[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 3 points 15 hours ago

Trump is not going to invite him to the next cannibal orgy.