Bolsonaro was admitted to a Sao Paulo hospital for further operations.

The former president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, was admitted this Monday to the Vila Nova Star hospital in São Paulo, a complex and very expensive private medical facility, where he will, in principle, undergo three operations. Two of them, in the abdominal area, should occur on Tuesday, and the third depends on the politician’s recovery after the previous two.

Bolsonaro, the victim of a stab wound to the abdomen that nearly killed him while campaigning for the 2018 presidential election, will undergo a new intestinal loop surgery – an operation he has had to undergo before after the attack, Digestive reports. The path problems are back. The second operation, also scheduled to take place this Tuesday, is to correct a hiatal hernia that has been causing the former ruler reflux and other discomforts.

Depending on Bolsonaro’s recovery from these two interventions, doctors will decide the date of the third operation or its postponement. The last intervention will be aimed at correcting the deviated septum, which causes breathing difficulties.

The ex-president’s hospitalization comes at a time when he faces very serious challenges in the courts and when the possibility of his arrest is being openly discussed in the press and in Congress, which some observers believe is only a matter of time.

The former head of state, sentenced in June to deprivation of voting rights by the Supreme Electoral Court (TSE), faces 15 more lawsuits in that court and is answering several other lawsuits in the Federal Supreme Court (STF) for attacks on democracy, including participation in plans to commit state coup after failing to be re-elected in last year’s presidential election, and for commanding a digital militia spreading fake news. He is also at the center of a major investigation by the Federal Police on suspicion of misappropriating millions of euros worth of jewelry offered to Brazil by other countries and which he also illegally exported to the United States of America the day before the end of his sentence. an order to sell and save money.

The former head of state does have health problems, but the timing of his new hospitalization attracted attention because it coincided with another sensitive moment in his life. During his time in office, from January 2019 to December 2022, Jair Bolsonaro was hospitalized at least seven times in hospitals in Sao Paulo or Brasilia when he faced political or legal difficulties.