Senator Flavio Bolsonaro of Brazil’s Liberal Party arrived in the Miami area on Wednesday with his wife and two daughters, days after losing the Oct. 25 presidential runoff to incumbent Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva¹. Argentine immigration authorities said the family entered Argentina by land late Tuesday, boarded a private flight to Guayaquil, Ecuador, and then continued to Florida, landing at Opa-Locka Executive Airport¹. The U.S. State Department said Tuesday it would issue visas to Bolsonaro and his family¹.

Lula received about 51.8 percent of valid votes to Bolsonaro’s 48.2 percent, a margin of more than 4.4 million votes, or more than 64.25 million to about 59.83 million^3,4.

On Sunday night in Brasília, Bolsonaro said he would not recognize the result and would seek to have the election annulled, citing a two-hour extension of voting ordered by Supreme Court Justice Cristiano Zanin^4,5. "It is impossible to recognise the result of the election in the context in which these things happened," Bolsonaro said, according to MercoPress⁴.

Zanin ordered polls that were still open to remain so until 7 p.m. Brasília time after reports of transport problems; Bolsonaro’s campaign had also asked for extra time in rain-hit areas^3,4,5. The Superior Electoral Court said the extra hours applied only where stations had not already closed^4,5.

Al Jazeera cited an Insper analysis putting votes recorded during the extension at about 35,000, far below Lula’s margin^1,3.

On Monday, Liberal Party leader Valdemar Costa Neto said the party recognized the presidential results while still wanting questions about the vote clarified³. "We recognise the presidential election results," Costa Neto said³.

Bolsonaro had not formally conceded in the accounts reviewed, and Folha de S. Paulo reported that allies had urged him to drop an annulment effort^2,3.

U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters Monday the vote looked "rigged," without offering evidence, while saying he had not taken sides and did not plan to intervene^3,6.

Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered Bolsonaro to surrender regular and diplomatic passports in a money-laundering and currency-evasion inquiry involving the senator and associate Willer Tomaz^1,2. Bolsonaro said Monday he had been told to hand over passports and would comply, then left Brazil anyway, according to Al Jazeera^1,2.

What comes next legally, and whether other conservative figures will fill the space he vacated, was not settled in the reporting^1,3.