Brasília, Brazil: Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro met Thursday (Friday in Manila) with advisors to incoming successor Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who described the visit as "positive," after fears the far-right incumbent would try to fight his election defeat.

Vice president-elect Geraldo Alckmin, who is heading Lula's transition team, said the meeting came at the end of a trip to the presidential palace where he and advisors met Bolsonaro's cabinet chief, Ciro Nogueira, to begin preparing the handover of power on January 1.

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