Brazil Front-Runner Says He’ll Only Accept Election Results If He Wins

  • Bolsonaro currently leads Workers’ Party’s Haddad in polls
  • Ex-army captain gives television interview from hospital
Jair BolsonaroPhotographer: Andre Coelho/Bloomberg
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Brazil’s leading presidential candidate, far-right former army captain Jair Bolsonaro, said that he wouldn’t accept an election result that doesn’t grant him victory.

Speaking Friday evening in a live televised interview on TV Band from his hospital room, where he is recovering after a knife attack, Bolsonaro was asked how he thought the military would react if Fernando Haddad, the leftist Workers’ Party candidate, were to be elected president.