Wire reporting: (AP, via The Boston Globe)

Defeated Brazilian presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro left Brazil for the United States after Sunday's runoff, according to an Associated Press report carried Tuesday by The Boston Globe¹.

The AP account said a Bolsonaro spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment¹.

Incumbent President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of the Workers' Party won the Oct. 25 second round with 64,256,232 votes, Agencia Brasil reported Monday, calling it the largest total ever for a presidential candidate in Brazil².

The AP report, via The Boston Globe, put Lula above 64 million votes and Bolsonaro below 60 million¹.

Agencia Brasil said Lula's next term begins Jan. 5, 2027, and that his 2026 total exceeded the more than 60 million votes he received in the 2022 runoff².

The AP report said Bolsonaro, a senator, had not conceded and had asked electoral authorities to examine fraud claims and to nullify the Lula-Geraldo Alckmin ticket¹.

The same report said a sealed Supreme Court order, viewed by the AP, required him to surrender regular and diplomatic passports, with a noon Tuesday deadline, and that it was unclear whether he had complied¹.

The AP account said Bolsonaro is under Supreme Court investigation in two cases involving alleged corruption, money laundering and tax evasion, and that he has denied wrongdoing¹.

It also said his brother Eduardo Bolsonaro, who lives in Texas, had publicly encouraged him to leave if he lost¹.

The AP report said President Donald Trump suggested Monday, without evidence, that Brazil's election was rigged, and that Flavio Bolsonaro had visited the White House in May¹.

What Bolsonaro's U.S. status is, whether he met the passport order, and whether Brazil's electoral court will act on his challenge were not established in the two assigned accounts^1,2.