Brazil's Bolsonaro endorses son for presidency before more surgery

Brazil's erstwhile President Jair Bolsonaro endorsed his son's 2026 statesmanlike run connected Thursday portion retired of jailhouse for much country that has dogged him since a stabbing 7 years ago.

Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, 44, has said helium wants to consolidate his father's blimpish bequest astatine the Oct. 4 vote, wherever helium volition effort to unseat leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

"With the committedness of not allowing the fashionable volition to beryllium silenced, I marque the determination to nominate Flavio Bolsonaro arsenic a pre-candidate for the presidency successful 2026," Jair Bolsonaro said successful a missive work retired by Flavio successful beforehand of a infirmary successful the metropolis of Brasilia wherever his begetter was being treated.

He was undergoing scheduled attraction for a hernia, his woman Michelle Bolsonaro said connected societal media.

Jair Bolsonaro, 70, has a past of hospitalizations and surgeries related to a stabbing helium suffered portion campaigning successful 2018, including a 12-hour process for recurring intestinal issues successful April this year.

Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes authorized Bolsonaro to permission prison, wherever helium is serving a 27-year condemnation for plotting a coup, for the surgery.

But constabulary were ordered to enactment extracurricular his room, wherever computers and mobile phones were prohibited.

Deemed a formation hazard pursuing his conviction, the ex-president was detained successful precocious November and began serving his 27-year condemnation 3 days later.

News of the younger Bolsonaro's statesmanlike candidacy this period rattled fiscal markets. Investors had stake the ex-president would backmost a much seasoned campaigner specified arsenic Sao Paulo Governor Tarcisio de Freitas, his erstwhile infrastructure minister.