"I didn't take sides, but it seemed like another rigged choice," Donald Trump said on Monday, October 26, without any evidence. "I found it very bad," the president said a day after the elections in which progressive Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won the re-election after defeating right-wing Flávio Bolsonaro. Meanwhile, Brazilian markets reacted with strong losses to Lula's triumph for investors' doubts about future fiscal policy.

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