More than 24 hours after his election defeat, Jair Bolsonaro has still not spoken. While the right-wing politician remains silent, his radical supporters are raising their voices and erecting street barricades.
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Christopher Gurk, Rio de Janeiro
It is a bitter irony of fate that Jair Bolsonaro’s silence of all things is now frightening many people in Brazil. On Sunday the country elected a new president, the right-wing incumbent just missed re-election by a few percentage points: he got 49.1 percent of the votes, instead of him the left-wing ex-president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won, he will now also the new head of state of Brazil.