This is not the first time that Bolsonaro has spoken about his return to Brazil. In the United States since the end of his mandate, he intends to “remain active in politics.”
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who has been in the United States since late December, said on Saturday evening that he “intends to return to Brazil in the coming weeks”, according to a video broadcast by CNN Brasil.
“We know that there, really, it’s a fantastic country. I want to go back to Brazil too. I intend to go back to Brazil in the coming weeks,” said the former manager of extreme right during a meeting with Brazilians in Boca Raton, Florida.
“We had a governance without corruption. We worked with heart, with honesty. No measure of retaliation, or even persecution, is justified”, he also affirmed, when he is the subject of an investigation by his country’s Supreme Court to determine his role in the assault on national institutions in Brasilia on January 8 led by Bolsonarists.
“Sometimes we have to take risks, it’s worth it”
Six hours after the assaults, Jair Bolsonaro had finally condemned lip service “the depredations and invasions of public buildings”, while denying any responsibility.
His left-wing successor Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said he was “certain” on February 2 that the ex-president had “prepared the coup”.
“We have to face the problems”, also launched Jair Bolsonaro on Saturday evening to his supporters. “Sometimes we have to take risks, it’s worth it. You can be sure that the majority of the Brazilian people are with us.”
The ex-army captain (67) took refuge in the United States on December 30, just before Lula’s inauguration on January 1, refusing as tradition dictates to hand over the presidential sash to his successor, whose victory he has never digested on the wire in October.
On January 10, he first mentioned his return, saying on CNN Brasil that he was initially supposed to stay “until the end” of January, but that he “intended to return sooner”. . At the end of January, he applied for a six-month visa to stay in the United States, according to his lawyer.
