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Bolsonaro supporters swarm Brazil Congress, clash with police

The area around the parliament building in Brasilia had been cordoned off by authorities, but Bolsonaro backers who refuse to accept leftist Lula's election victory broke through, marched up ramps and gathered on a roof of the modernist building.

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The building is where Brazil's Senate and Chamber of Deputies conducts its legislative business. Protesters appeared on the iconic building's roof, but also on many of its adjoining lawns and open spaces, including that of the nearby Planalto palace.