Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who fled to the US a day before the end of his term in December last year for fear of arrest because he lost the immunity that the position gave him, confirmed Wall Street Journal that this fear persists and even intensified.
In an interview with WSJ, Bolsonaro, who seems to be afraid even in North America because he was present at the interview, in a building in Orlando, Florida, under the protection of bodyguards, said that in Brazil they are trying to blame him for everything and everything, even, he stressed, in an attempted coup d’etat by supporters on January 8 in Brasilia to overthrow the new president, Lula da Silva.
“An arrest warrant can come out of nowhere. I wasn’t even there. [no 8 de Janeiro]and they want to charge me!” the former president said, denying that his supporters’ invasions of Congress, the Federal Supreme Court and the Presidential Palace that day were a coup attempt.
“Coup, what coup…? Where was the commander? Where were the troops, where were the bombs?” he asked.
In an interview, Jair Bolsonaro hinted again that the election of Lula da Silva in last October’s presidential election was rigged, again without providing any evidence. The former president said he was puzzled by the result, the first electoral defeat of his life, because, he stressed, the people were with him.
“I had people with me, I had agribusiness, I had most of the evangelists with me, I had industry with me, I had gun owners with me,” reflected Bolsonaro, who, in statements at various events in the United States, repeated that his defeat and the defeat of Lula elections were planned and carried out in the offices of Federal Supreme Court and High Electoral Court judges, not by popular vote.
Bolsonaro said he must return to Brazil next month, in March, to lead the right in the country because, he added, “at the moment there is no one who can do it.”
In fact, Bolsonaro, who had intended to stay out of Brazil until his lawyers assured him that the risk of being arrested no longer existed, is under pressure to await his return to the country due to the unexpected political prominence his own wife, Michelle, has acquired. Bolsonaro. , enjoys, namely, in his Liberal Party, taking over this Wednesday as the President of the LP-Müller, with the right to a luxurious office in Brasilia and the high salary that the party had previously promised him, and which he threatens to fill the leadership position left vacant after leaving former head of state.
Author: Domingos Grilo Serrinha This Correspondent in Brazil
Source: CM Jornal
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