Brazilian lawmaker says Flávio Bolsonaro has left for US ‘in exile’

The departure turns a domestic legal dispute into a question of cross-border politics: a defeated presidential candidate leaving for the US while a Supreme Court justice is ordering his passport surrendered is a notable test of how far Brazilian judicial authority reaches in practice. The immediate audience is Brazil's political class and the court itself, since enforcement now depends on a foreign jurisdiction's cooperation. Whether the passport order is actually executed and whether the US treats the arrival as a private matter or a political one are the open questions worth watching.