🇧🇷🇺🇸 Flavio Bolsonaro said in a statement that he left Brazil with his family for the United States after the Oct. 25 runoff, describing himself as "the real elected president of Brazil" and claiming election fraud, arguing that the Federal Supreme Court's decision extended the vote hours past Lula-Elamin's legal deadline. power.
He said there was no arrest warrant against him, called the legal proceedings a political persecution by the Supreme Court which he claimed was controlled by the PT, and stated "I did not flee Brazil", adding that he left to lead the opposition from abroad while thanking Presidents Trump and Milli for accepting him. Bolsonaro added that he will address Brazilians regularly in the coming days and present a strategy for mobilizing the opposition "by all peaceful and legitimate means", and calls on the international community not to normalize what is happening in the country.