# Flavio Bolsonaro says police seized passports after election defeat

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/defeated-brazilian-president-candidate-bolsonaro-is-banned-from-leaving-the-country/
- Published: 2026-10-26T23:42:46+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-27T00:07:16+00:00
- Original publisher: Daily Mail (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16240877/Defeated-Brazilian-president-candidate-Bolsonaro-banned-leaving-country.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
- Topics: Americas, Elections, Geopolitics, Government, Politics, World

## Key points

- Flavio Bolsonaro says he must surrender his passports.
- He denies planning to leave Brazil after losing.
- Lula won the run-off with 51.7 per cent.

## Summary

Flavio Bolsonaro, a far-right senator who lost Brazil’s presidential run-off to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, says police ordered him to surrender his passports and barred him from leaving the country. He said he would comply and denied intending to flee; the reported order followed comments by his brother suggesting he leave Brazil if he lost.

Bolsonaro said the order was based on a ruling by Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who oversaw his father Jair Bolsonaro’s trial. His father is serving a 27-year sentence under house arrest after being convicted of plotting a coup. Lula won 51.7 per cent of the vote to Flavio Bolsonaro’s 48.2 per cent, becoming the first Brazilian candidate since the return to democracy to win after placing second in the first round.

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