Rio de Janeiro, (EFE).- Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has no plans to return to Brazil nor is he concerned about the investigations that were opened against him since he traveled to the United States, his eldest son, Senator Flávio, said this Saturday Bolsonaro.
«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,” said 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.
“He is not worrying. Haven’t you ever taken vacations?” he stated.
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 asked about the return to Brazil of former first lady Michelle Bolsonaro on Friday, the senator stated that he does not know who remains with his father in Orlando but added that “they are surely very close people.”
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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.
“If they want to hold Bolsonaro responsible for a peaceful camp of people who legitimately protested for not having demobilized him, Lula must also be held responsible,” he said of the camp that thousands of Bolsonaro supporters had set up in front of the Army headquarters and from which they the coup acts began.
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 implicates him.”
He also said that the calm is due to the fact that it is not up to the courts to “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.
