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The outgoing president had failed earlier to accept defeat explicitly, after falling silent for nearly two days following Sunday's vote.

Sky News' Stuart Ramsay is in Sao Paulo where supporters of the Workers' Party Luiz Lula da Silva struggle to contain their excitement. The final results are still awaited, but as the poll closes people on the streets in Sao Paula seem energised for their candidate.

The vote will determine if the fourth-largest democracy stays on the same course of far-right politics or returns a leftist to the top job.

Truckers and other protesters on Monday blocked some highways in Brazil in an apparent protest over the electoral defeat of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro to leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, authorities said. Burning tires, as well as vehicles such as trucks, cars and vans were blocking several points in the central-western agricultural state of Mato Grosso, which largely supports Bolsonaro, reported the company which manages the highway in the state.

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Brazil’s former leftist president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has sealed an astonishing political comeback, beating the far-right incumbent, Jair Bolsonaro, in one of the most significant and bruising elections in the country’s history.

Brazil's incoming president Lula da Silva has a very long to-do list, but he faces challenges as the country is already struggling with the current global economic crisis and the costs caused by the COVID pandemic.

Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro did not concede defeat in his first remarks since losing the election, saying protests by his supporters were the fruit of ‘indignation and a sense of injustice' over the vote. However, he did authorize a transition to winner Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

Brazil's president, Jair Bolsonaro, has broken two days of silence following his defeat in a presidential vote on Sunday. In his brief statement, the far-right leader did not congratulate his rival or concede the election to Lula da Silva, but his team later said a transition was "authorised". Bolsonaro also suggested that his supporters, who have been blocking roads across the country, should not impede transit. Al Jazeera's @Lucia Newman reports from Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Protests by backers of Jair Bolsonaro, led by truck drivers, have spread across the country as the Brazilian president remains silent over his loss in Sunday’s election, so far refusing to concede defeat to his foe Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Supporters of the firebrand president, unhappy with the election result, blocked roads across 23 states and the capital and restricted access to Sao Paulo international airport late Monday evening, forcing the cancellation of some flights. Over 300 federal highways were partially or fully blocked at one point, according to the police. Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who also oversaw the electoral court for the election process, ordered the federal highway police to clear the protests, warning of fines reaching 100,000 reais ($19,306) per hour per vehicle and that the agency’s director could be sidelined if he didn’t comply.

President Jair Bolsonaro will not publicly address his defeat in Brazil's presidential election until Tuesday, a minister said, amid doubts over whether the far-right nationalist will accept the victory of his leftist rival Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

Left-leaning candidate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva defeated conservative incumbent Jair Bolsonaro to become Brazil's president, with 50.8 % of the vote. President Biden tweeted his congratulations to Da Silva and praised the country for its "free, fair and credible" elections.

Brazil’s electoral authority says that Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of the leftist Worker’s Party defeated incumbent Jair Bolsonaro to become the country’s next president. With 98.8% of the votes tallied, da Silva had 50.8% and Bolsonaro 49.2%, and the election authority said da Silva’s victory was a mathematical certainty.

Leftist Luis Inacio Lula da Silva defeated President Jair Bolsonaro on Sunday in an election runoff that marked a stunning comeback for Lula and the end of Brazil’s most right-wing government in decades. Lula won 50.9 per cent of votes compared with 49.1 per cent for Bolsonaro, the Supreme Electoral Court said, declaring former president Lula the winner. The 77-year-old Lula’s inauguration is scheduled for Jan. 1. The vote was a rebuke for the fiery far-right populism of Bolsonaro, who emerged from the back benches of Congress to forge a novel conservative coalition but lost support as Brazil ran up one of the worst death tolls of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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"I'm just as upset, as sad as you. But we have to keep our head in place," he said, calling demonstrations welcome as part of democracy but the blockades on the nation's highways are making ongoing demonstrations illegitimate. He called on his supporters to choose other ways to demonstrate. Authorities said they were making headway in their efforts to clear blockades, but there are still concerns the demonstrations were disrupting fuel distribution, industrial activity and food deliveries. Bolsonaro has not conceded his loss to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, though he said he would follow the constitution, indicating a transition was likely to take place.

President Jair Bolsonaro's supporters in Brazil are protesting against leftist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's victory in the presidential election.

Police clashed with demonstrators, firing teargas to break up hundreds of protests, including one blockade limiting access to São Paulo's international airport. Bolsonaro lost a tightly fought ballot to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva but has yet to concede defeat.

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