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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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Security forces used tear gas in an apparently failed effort to repel the demonstrators.