The closest the right-wing president has come to admitting defeat is when he told the Supreme Court in a private meeting that the election is over.
The president told the Supreme Court that the election was over.
In a video broadcast with local outlets, a justice on Brazil's Supreme Court said that he had been told the election was over.
The one-term president was narrowly defeated by a left-wing challenger in a high-profile presidential election after months of baseless claims from Bolsonaro and his right-wing Liberal party.
Some of Bolsonaro's supporters have taken to the streets, blocking highways and calling for the military to keep him in office.
Most of his political allies, however, have pushed him to recognize his defeat, while his administration reportedly signaled it will proceed with the transition of power to Lula.
Bolsonaro said in a speech on Tuesday that he has always played within the four lines of the constitution and called the highway protests a response to "indignation and a sense of injustice"
Bolsonaro, who is nicknamed the "Trump of the Tropics", has been spreading false rumors that the elections would be tampered with for months leading up to the election. In September, members of his party shared a document that supported the idea that government employees have the power to change the results of an election. The allegations were denied by the electoral authority. Bolsonaro's son said his father was the victim of the " greatest election fraud ever seen".
Bolsonaro, a key ally of former President Donald Trump, spread doubts about election fraud before voting began. The January 6 insurrection at Capitol Hill was caused by rioters trying to disrupt the congressional approval of the election results. Trump said before the election that Brazil should not be allowed to be destroyed by the Radical Left Lunatics.
The president of the United States called the elections free, fair and credible, while the leader of a democratic movement called the result a "victory of a democratic movement." After serving 19 months in jail on corruption charges, the Supreme Court of Brazil overturned his conviction and prevented him from running again. He ran on a platform of lifting the country's economic spending cap in order to promote economic growth.
The left wing of the Brazil election narrowly defeated the right wing to return to the presidency.
The minister says Bolsonaro won't contest election defeat.
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