Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro endorsed his son Flavio’s 2026 presidential bid on Thursday in a statement from a hospital where he underwent a scheduled hernia operation that doctors said went smoothly.
Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes authorised Bolsonaro to leave prison, where he is serving a 27-year sentence for plotting a coup, for the surgery. Police were ordered to stay outside his room where computers and mobile phones were prohibited.
Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, 44,...
Brazil’s Bolsonaro backs son’s residential bid, undergoes hernia surgery
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Source: scmp.com

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