“It could be tomorrow, in six months or never”: Jair Bolsonaro has no date to return to Brazil, says son

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has no plans to return to Brazil nor is he concerned about the investigations that have been opened against him since he traveled to the United States, his eldest son, Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, said this weekend.

“There is no forecast for his return. He will know when he does. It could be tomorrow, it could be in about six months or he may never come back. I don’t know,” the right-wing senator said. Liberal Party (PL), the same as his father’s, speaking to reporters on Saturday.

The far-right leader traveled to Orlando on December 30, two days before his political enemy Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was to succeed him as president and, although he said he would take a few days off, You are applying for a new visa in order to stay longer in the United States, as his son acknowledged.

“He’s not worried. Have you guys ever taken a vacation?” she said.

Bolsonaro left Brazil without acknowledging his defeat in the October presidential elections, won by Lula, and was not brusque in criticizing the coup attempt that thousands of his followers attempted on January 8, when they stormed the offices of the Presidency, Congress and the Supreme Court.

When asked on Friday about former first lady Michelle Bolsonaro’s return to Brazil, the senator said he did not know who is staying with his father in Orlando but added that “they are definitely very close people”.

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Even the ex-president’s son said the far-right leader don’t be afraid to come back in Brazil to address the investigations opened by both the Federal Supreme Court and the Superior Electoral Court.

Among the new inquiries, the Supreme Court has opened one to investigate his possible responsibility, as instigator of the coup attacks on January 8 for continuing to question the reliability of Brazil’s electronic voting system.

“There is no fear. He has no responsibility for what happened in Brazil (on January 8). If he were sitting in the presidential chair, they could say he facilitated something but he wasn’t there,” Flávio Bolsonaro said.

He added that if they were going to pin the blame on his father, they should also pin the blame on Lula, who was ruling the country at the time of the attacks and, in his view, had the time to take steps to prevent them and failed to do so. .

“If they want to hold Bolsonaro accountable for a peaceful camp of people who legitimately protested that they didn’t demobilize him, Lula must also be held accountable,” he said of the camp that thousands of Bolsonaro supporters had set up in front of the Army headquarters in request an intervention that stops the recruitment the leader of the Workers’ Party.

According to the senator, the lawyers representing the far-right leader are aware of all the investigations and believe that “there is nothing legally implying it”.

He also said the calm is due to the fact that it is not for the courts to “make a political judgement”.

Flavio Bolsonaro said the former president is in no hurry to return to Brazil for further abdominal surgery due to complications from the stab wound he suffered in 2018, despite having to rush to hospital in Orlando at the beginning of the l year and is currently in good health.

Source: EFE and AFP

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