Former President Jair Bolsonaro returned to Brazil on Thursday after a three-month stay in Florida to seek a new role in politics.
Bolsonaro left Brazil shortly before the end of his mandate. In doing so, he broke with the tradition of handing the presidential sash to his successor, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who won the October election by the narrowest margin since Brazil’s return to democracy some three decades earlier.
During his time in the United States, Bolsonaro still kept a low profile in general gave several speeches to Brazilian expatriates and conservatives, one of them at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland.
“I am without a mandate, but I am not retired,” Bolsonaro told the Jovem Pan television network on Monday.
The Federal District security secretariat mobilized hundreds of police officers and the Ministries Esplanade was closed to avoid gatherings of Bolsonaro supporters.
A horde of supporters of the former president stormed and looted the capital’s most important government buildings on January 8, a week after Lula took office, in an attempt to overthrow the new president.
Source: Clarin
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