BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s lower house of Congress late on Tuesday voted down a proposed constitutional amendment backed by President Jair Bolsonaro that would change the country’s voting system to require paper ballots, among other alterations.
Right-wing Bolsonaro has threatened not to accept the results of next year’s presidential election, which polls show him losing to left-wing former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, if the system is not changed, after he made unproven claims of fraud in the electronic voting.
(Reporting by Maria Carolina Marcello; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman)
