The president left a private clinic in Sao Paulo on Wednesday.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro affirmed this Thursday that there is a risk of being “eliminated” in an attack like the one he suffered in 2018, when he was contesting the elections that brought him to power, but said that he trusts the Government’s security team .
“That there is a risk of me being eliminated, that exists,” Bolsonaro declared in his first weekly live program through social networks, although he refrained from giving more details so as not to “compromise” the actions of the Institutional Security Cabinet ( GSI).
“In 2018, we began to grow in the electoral polls and a point was reached where the ‘other side’ -without naming names- understood that we had won the elections and there they tried to kill me,” said the president a day after receiving discharge after 3 days of hospitalization.
The president left a private clinic in Sao Paulo on Wednesday, where he had been hospitalized since early Monday morning, when he interrupted his vacation in the southern state of Santa Catarina to travel by plane to the São Paulo capital due to abdominal pain.
The medical team that treated Bolsonaro this week associated these health problems with the 2018 attack, when a mental patient who was affiliated with a left-wing party stabbed the then presidential candidate during an electoral campaign.
Since then, the far-right leader has undergone four surgeries on his abdomen.
The author of that attack, Adelio Bispo, was declared unimpeachable by the Justice due to his mental disorders.
Even so, Bolsonaro again promoted conspiracy theories about the attack this week, accusing the left of it, and celebrated the reopening of the case to clarify whether Bispo acted alone or was assisted by third parties, which has been ruled out by the Police Federal in two previous proceedings.
“It didn’t come out of his head (for Bispo). It is not difficult for me to solve the case. Now, he is going to splash important people, “he insinuated, without providing evidence about his” assassination attempt “and the use of the attack for” political purposes. “
Criticism of childhood vaccination
On the other hand, Bolsonaro again criticized the approval by the National Sanitary Surveillance Agency (Anvisa, regulator) of vaccination for children between 5 and 11 years old and insisted that he will not vaccinate his only female daughter, Laura -of 11 -, because no one will assume any eventual risk in the face of a reaction from the immunizer.
“Anvisa itself admits that there is a risk, because in its recommendation it says that if a child has chest pain, feels short of breath or has palpitations after the vaccine, they have to go find a doctor. But the responsibility lies with the parents ”, he pointed out.
Brazil is one of the 3 countries most affected by the coronavirus pandemic in absolute numbers, along with the United States and India, adding 22.35 million confirmed cases and almost 620,000 deaths. (I)
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