The former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro has no forecast to return to Brazil nor is he concerned about the investigations that were opened against him since he traveled to USAsaid his eldest son, Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, this Saturday.
“There is no forecast for his return. He will know when he does it. It may be tomorrow, it may be in about six months, or he may never come back. I don’t know”, toassured the senator for the right-wing Liberal Party (PL) in statements to journalists.
The far-right leader traveled to Orlando on December 30, two days before the progressive Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva succeeded him in the Presidency, and, although he had said that he would take a few days off, he is managing a new visa for to be able to stay longer in the US, according to his son’s admission.
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“He is not caring. Have you ever taken a vacation?” he claimed.
Bolsonaro left Brazil without acknowledging his defeat in the October presidential elections, won by Lula, and was not blunt when 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 questioned about the return of former first lady Michelle Bolsonaro to Brazil on Friday, the senator said he did not know who was staying with his father in Orlando but added that “Surely they are very close people.”
He also said that the far-right leader has no fear of returning to Brazil to face the investigations opened by both the Federal Supreme Court and the Superior Electoral Court.
Among the new investigations, the Supreme Court opened one to investigate his possible responsibility, as an incentive, for 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 that he facilitated something but he was not there ”said Flávio Bolsonaro.
He added that if they wanted to pin the blame on his father, they would also have to pin the blame on Lula, who was ruling the country at the time of the attacks and, in his opinion, had time to take steps to prevent them and failed to do so.
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“If they want to hold Bolsonaro responsible for a peaceful encampment of people who legitimately protested for not having demobilized him, Lula must also be held responsible”affirmed about the camp that thousands of Bolsonaristas had set up in front of the Army headquarters and from which the coup acts started.
According to the senator, the lawyers representing the far-right leader are aware of all the investigations and consider that “There is nothing that legally implies it.”
He also said that the tranquility is due to the fact that it is not up to the courts “make a political judgment”.
He affirmed that the former president does not need to return to Brazil for a new abdominal surgery due to the complications of the stab wound he suffered in 2018, despite the fact that in Orlando he had to go to a hospital urgently at the beginning of the year, and that at this time he is in good health.
Source: EFE
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