The similarities are obvious: for months, the right-wing extremist President Jair Bolsonaro had attacked the legality of the elections - like Trump in the USA. He had never accepted his opponent's election victory - like Trump in the USA. Like Trump, he had refused a democratic transition and thus signaled to his supporters that the successor government was illegitimate.

Even before the transfer of power, Bolsonaro simply took off – to the USA, to Florida.

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