Former president entered the US after his election loss and is staying in Florida
Photograph: Xinhua/REX/ShutterstockPhotograph: Xinhua/REX/ShutterstockDozens of Democratic lawmakers, including some of the top members of the House foreign affairs committee,to Joe Biden on Thursday demanding former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro’s diplomatic visa be canceled in the wake of the rampage in Brazil’s capital by his supporters.
It isn’t certain which visa Bolsonaro used to enter the United States on 30 December, just before the end of his presidential term. He is staying in a home outside Orlando,, and video has shown him snapping photos with supporters in the gated community and walking around a supermarket. Following the 30 October election, many of Bolsonaro’s die-hard supporters claimed the election was fraudulent. They blocked highways nationwide and began camping outside army buildings, demanding military intervention to overturn the election and keep Bolsonaro in power. Then on Sunday, they trashed congress, the supreme court and the presidential palace.
Instead, Bolsonaro and his party petitioned the electoral authority to nullify millions of votes cast on the majority of voting machines that featured a software bug. The request did not say how the bug might affect results, and independent experts said it would not undermine reliability in any way. The electoral authority’s president swiftly dismissed the request and imposed a multimillion-dollar fine on the party for what he called a bad-faith effort.
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