Flavio Bolsonaro, Brazil's defeated presidential election candidate, has said that he is being stopped from leaving the country, claiming police ordered him to surrender his passports on the orders of a top judge.
The senator, who was defeated by current president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in a run-off vote on Sunday, said that the country's federal police had asked him to hand it over following a visit to his imprisoned father, former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro.
"I was ordered right on the street to hand over my passports, and I'm also prohibited from leaving the country," Mr Bolsonaro said in a social media video.
He claimed that the police request was based on a ruling from Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes.
The right-wing politician provided no evidence to back up his claim, but said he would comply with the request, denying he planned to flee the country after the election.
Brazil's top court and federal police have not commented.
According to Mr Bolsonaro, the judge's ruling was based on remarks from his younger brother, Eduardo Bolsonaro. He said on a podcast last week that his sibling should leave the country if the run-off vote went against him.
Mr Da Silva, commonly known as Lula, won a historic fourth term in Sunday's election in a surprise result that defied polls.
The race was incredibly tight, and, up until Saturday, Mr Bolsonaro, 45, was slightly ahead.
Voting was neck and neck throughout Sunday evening's count, before Lula, 81, pulled away to secure an unprecedented fourth term in office.
With virtually 100% of the vote counted, Brazil's electoral court said Lula held an unassailable 51.79% of the ballots cast, to Mr Bolsonaro's 48.21%, with both candidates needing 50% to win.
Mr Bolsonaro, the Liberal Party candidate, refused to accept defeat, and said that he would ask for the result to be annulled.
The challenger won the agricultural hub of the centre-west, and the southern region, but Lula overtook him by winning in north and northeast Brazil, which includes the Amazon rainforest.
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Mr Bolsonaro, whose father is serving a 27-year prison sentence for attempting a coup after he lost the 2022 presidential election to Lula, said it was "impossible" to accept the result following a legal decision to extend voting hours made by Supreme Court Justice Cristiano Zanin, who was formerly Lula's lawyer.
It's not clear if Mr Bolsonaro's complaint meets the legal threshold to annul the results - but he can request a recount if there is evidence of fraud.
Lula's victory was all the more remarkable given that Mr Bolsonaro beat him by 2.2 million votes in the first round of the election earlier this month.
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