Bolsonaro returns to Brazil promising to make it more like Florida
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- 31 Mar 2023
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Former president Jair Bolsonaro has returned to Brazil after a three-month stint in the US state of Florida following his election loss, and the right-wing populist told supporters he doesn’t think leftists will be in power in Brazil for long.
Bolsonaro, who is the subject of several investigations that could stymie any attempts at a political comeback, arrived in a capital under tight security. Authorities sought to avoid any repeat of January 8 events when supporters who didn’t accept his defeat stormed government buildings. Police in Brasilia blocked the main artery to those buildings.
Hundreds of supporters dressed in Brazil’s national colours of yellow and green chanted as they awaited his arrival, but Bolsonaro’s return did not draw the huge crowds many of his allies had expected. That appeared to please his opponents, current President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s minister of institutional relations, Alexandre Padilha, who called the reception a “flop”.
Bolsonaro said in his first speech after touching down that his leftist successor and his allies would “not do whatever they want to the fate of our nation” and added that the left would only keep power “for now, for a little while”. Read More..
