🇧🇷 "I address the Brazilian people and the international community as the true elected president of Brazil." Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, who lost Sunday's presidential runoff to incumbent Lula da Silva by about 4.4 million votes, is claiming the presidency in a statement released from Miami, United States. Without offering any evidence, he calls the result "electoral fraud.” In the statement, Bolsonaro: ➤ Blames a last-minute Supreme Court decision extending voting hours, which he says arrived "after the legal closing time." He does not mention that at 3:50 p.m. Brasília time, his Liberal Party campaign also asked the Superior Electoral Court to extend voting to 7 p.m. in 19 rain-hit cities in São Paulo, Paraná and Santa Catarina. (It also asked that results be held back until voting there ended.) ➤ Calls the Supreme Court investigations against him a "politically motivated witch hunt," saying "there is no arrest warrant against me because I have committed no crime" ➤ Says "I didn't flee Brazil, I left Brazil," comparing himself to Charles de Gaulle, José Martí and Venezuela's Juan Guaidó ➤ Thanks Trump and Argentine President Javier Milei, and vows to "lead the opposition here.” He also praises Venezuela’s María Corina Machado for having "refused to legitimize the fraud,” and calls on international community to not "normalize what is happening in Brazil” Bolsonaro faces two Supreme Court investigations into alleged corruption and money laundering. He missed Tuesday's deadline to hand over his passports before fleeing to Miami.