Brazil runoff vote count resumes after two-hour polling extension

Vote counting resumed in Brazil’s presidential runoff after polls closed following a two-hour extension ordered by the supreme court on Sunday. Flávio Bolsonaro and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva were awaiting the results.

A local electoral court ordered the full bus fleet restored to service and issued an arrest warrant for municipal transport secretary Pablo Souza on suspicion of an electoral offence and failure to obey court orders.

The warrant could not be executed because Souza was in Paris on a trip the city government described as official business. He was not expected back in Brazil until Monday.

Late in the afternoon, Bolsonaro also sought two-hour voting extensions in cities across São Paulo, Paraná and Santa Catarina, saying heavy rain had kept voters from reaching the polls.