Brazil is still waiting for President Jair Bolsonaro to accept defeat.
Or, at least, say something about the results of Sunday's second round, which saw Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva win by just under two points or 2.1 million votes.
Bolsonaro secluded himself at night in the Alvorada Palace, the president's residence in Brasilia, and did not even speak to his ministers.
He was still there on Monday morning.
Nor have his children said anything, all very active politicians on social networks: Flavio, elected senator and coordinator of his campaign;
Eduardo, deputy re-elected for São Paulo;
and Carlos, current councilor in Rio de Janeiro.
What Bolsonaro will do is for now a mystery, although his margin to challenge the results is narrowing.
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During the campaign, Bolsonaro was very critical of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), which he accused of mounting dark maneuvers to harm him.
"The system is against me," he denounced during the last debate against Lula, on Friday, October 28.
On Sunday, however, the president of the TSE, Alexandre Moraes, said that Bolsonaro had treated him “with extreme courtesy” when he informed him of the election result by phone.
After that call, Bolsonaro locked himself in the Alvorada and simply went to sleep.
Outside, a few dozen supporters prayed with their cell phones lighting up the sky, clad in T-shirts with the Brazilian flag and their hands raised.
It was of little use that Lula demanded that he acknowledge defeat when he spoke before tens of thousands of supporters on Paulista Avenue, the epicenter of the left-wing celebrations.
The elected president also demanded "an orderly transition."
"He hasn't called me yet and I don't know if he will," Lula lamented.
How the remaining two months will pass until January 1, when Lula will be sworn in to his new position, is another of the great unknowns of Brazilian politics.
For now, Bolsonaro has even refused to talk to his allies, many of whom have already conceded defeat.
Like Tarcísio de Freitas, the elected governor of São Paulo, a military man and a man very close to the president.
Tarcísio said that the result at the polls is "sovereign", and offered, as helmsman of the largest and richest state in Brazil, to talk with Lula when necessary.
"As soon as there is a call for a conversation, we will be there," said Bolsonaro's former Minister of Infrastructure.
Arthur Lira, the powerful president of the Chamber of Deputies, said Sunday night that "the will of the majority expressed at the polls can never be answered."
"We will continue to build a sovereign, fair country with fewer inequalities," said Lira, from a party allied to the president.
The elected deputy and influencer Nikolas Ferreira,
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