Lula’s government is already moving to seize Flávio Bolsonaro’s passport and treat him as a criminal, hours after an election Flávio has not even conceded. This is true madness that the left is treating as normal despite the seizure being clearly tyrannical.
Federal Deputy Duda Salabert of the PSOL party—the Socialism and Liberty Party, a left-wing party further left than Lula’s PT—posted early Monday that she had requested the seizure of Flávio’s passport. She wrote that “the next step for this criminal is to try to flee Brazil to avoid facing the various inquiries in his name. He needs to be arrested soon.” She added that they could not allow him to join his brother in the U.S. Minutes after the race was called she had also posted “We won! Now it’s prison for Flavio Bolsonaro!”
Flávio is rightly contesting the election result over the two-hour voting extension ordered by Justice Cristiano Zanin, Lula’s former personal lawyer, after polls had already closed in many places. Brazil’s own Superior Electoral Court president, Kassio Nunes Marques, said Sunday there was no rule authorizing that extension and that “never, in the history of the TSE, has there been any extension.”
What we’re seeing in Brazil now is the left’s playbook when it holds institutional power. Change the rules mid-count, label the opponent a criminal, and move to restrict his movement before the challenge is even heard. Democrats and leftists abroad are already praising Lula’s win and his government despite their blatantly illegal acts and abuses of power since Sunday voting began in Brazil. Recognize who you’re dealing with. The same leftists who call voter ID racist and treat extended hours as ordinary administration treat any conservative who questions the result as a threat that needs to be neutralized. Sunday in Brazil was the latest example of the real tyranny from a left that’s now controlled by socialists.