Irish Examiner View: Time’s up for destructive Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil

Another four years of Bolsonaro would have had devastating environmental consequences.

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva celebrates defeating incumbent Jair Bolsonaro in a presidential run-off election in Sao Paulo, Brazil, last Sunday. Picture: Andre Penner/AP

Defeated Brazilian presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro is working from a very familiar playbook. Like his hero and mentor, the defeated American presidential candidate Donald Trump, he refused to concede in an election that he clearly lost.

The sensational victory of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva — or Lula, as he is more commonly known — in Sunday’s election run-off was confirmed by the Superior Electoral Court at 8pm that evening, but Bolsonaro, a familiarly fiery right-wing rabble-rouser, has failed, as yet, to concede defeat.