Brazil runoff live updates: voting time extended as Bolsonaro narrowly leads Lula in race for presidency

Brazilian ⁠Supreme Court ordered ⁠voting ​in runoff ⁠to be ⁠extended by ​two ‌hours Sunday as Flávio Bolsonaro narrowly leads incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

The local electoral court ordered the immediate restoration of 100% of the bus fleet and ordered the arrest of the municipal transport secretary, Pablo Souza, on suspicion of an electoral offence and disobeying court orders. The arrest warrant could not be carried out, however, because he is in Paris on what the city government described as an “official mission”, and is not expected to return to Brazil until Monday.

Late in the afternoon, Flávio Bolsonaro also filed requests for voting to be extended by two hours in cities in the states of São Paulo, Paraná and Santa Catarina, but because of heavy rain that he said had prevented voters from turning out.

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