Brazil’s Bolsonaro says he won’t hand over presidency

Reuters :
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Thursday he would hand over power to whoever wins next year’s presidential election cleanly – but not if there is any fraud.
His comments will do little to dispel the concerns of his critics, who fear that the far-right former army captain will not accept any election loss in next year’s vote. Bolsonaro is almost certain to face his political nemesis, former leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Polls show Lula ahead.
“I’ll hand over the presidential sash to whoever wins the election cleanly,” Bolsonaro said in a weekly address via social media. “Not with fraud.”
Since his 2018 election victory, Bolsonaro has made baseless allegations of voter fraud in Brazil, which critics say could lay the groundwork to challenge upcoming elections in the same vein as his political idol, former US President Donald Trump.