‘Unblock’ roads

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Brazil’s outgoing President Jair Bolsonaro asked participants in what he said were “legitimate” protests to “unblock the roads” and demonstrate elsewhere Wednesday as they push for military intervention to keep him in power. The far-right leaders’ supporters are rallying in front of military installations in Brazil’s major cities and have blocked highways in more than half the country’s states. The demonstrators, unwilling to accept the results of Bolsonaro’s Sunday election defeat to leftist ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, have now clogged autoroutes and caused nationwide disruptions for three straight days. “I want to make an appeal to them: Unblock the roads,” Bolsonaro said late Wednesday. The blockages do “not seem to me to be part of legitimate demonstrations.”