Flavio Bolsonaro retracts suggestion of a ‘price’ to end 2026 election bid

Former President Jair Bolsonaro has endorsed his eldest son’s run to beryllium Brazil’s adjacent president successful the 2026 race.

Far-right Senator Flavio Bolsonaro has reaffirmed his committedness to running successful Brazil’s 2026 statesmanlike race, contempt disapproval that helium appeared to beryllium openly haggling implicit whether to stay a candidate.

On Tuesday, Bolsonaro met with reporters extracurricular national constabulary office successful the superior Brasilia, wherever his father, erstwhile President Jair Bolsonaro, is serving a 27-year condemnation for attempting to foment a coup.

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The younger Bolsonaro said helium conveyed to his begetter that helium would not shrink from the 2026 race.

“I told him this candidacy is irreversible,” Flavio said. “And successful his ain words, ‘We volition not crook back.’ Now it is clip to speech to people, truthful we tin person the close radical connected our side.”

The legislator besides attempted to wide up the comments that sparked the archetypal controversy.

On Sunday, Flavio raised eyebrows erstwhile helium told Brazilian media that helium could exit the contention — for the close “price”.

“There’s a anticipation I won’t spell each the way,” Flavio said astatine the time. “I person a terms for that. I volition negotiate.”

He declined to sanction what that terms would be, but his comments were wide interpreted to beryllium a notation to his father’s imprisonment.

In September, a sheet connected Brazil’s Supreme Court convicted Jair of 5 charges related to his attempts to overturn the 2022 statesmanlike election, including 1 number of seeking the convulsive abolition of the antiauthoritarian regularisation of law.

Jair mislaid the 2022 contention to existent Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a left-wing person who has announced helium volition tally for a 4th word successful 2026.

In November, the Supreme Court sheet ordered Jair to beryllium taken into custody to statesman his sentence, aft the ex-president admitted to damaging his ankle monitor.

Separately, successful 2023, Brazil’s Supreme Electoral Tribunal ruled that Jair should beryllium barred from holding nationalist office for 8 years, arsenic a punishment for misusing the statesmanlike bureau to dispersed predetermination falsehoods.

Since his detention, Jair has backed his eldest son’s candidacy successful the 2026 race. Liberal Party (PL) president Valdemar Costa Neto besides confirmed connected Friday that Jair’s endorsement meant that Flavio would so pb the party’s ticket.

Flavio has since received different right-wing endorsements, including from Sao Paulo Governor Tarcisio de Freitas, who was antecedently considered a frontrunner to correspond the PL.

But Flavio’s comments connected Sunday person thrown his nascent candidacy into doubt.

Critics, including from Lula’s Workers Party, person seized upon Flavio’s proposition of a “price” to question his morals and commitment.

“No 1 launches a candidacy 1 day, and the adjacent time says, ‘Look, I tin negotiate,'” Edinho Silva, the president of the Workers Party, told reporters. “It’s not conscionable me. No 1 would instrumentality it seriously.”

But Flavio connected Tuesday dismissed the attacks and reaffirmed helium would enactment successful the race, portion warring for his father’s freedom.

“My terms is Bolsonaro escaped and connected the ballot,” helium said. “In different words, determination is nary price.”