The former leader is looking for a political return despite the ban on public duties, echoes Trump’s strategy to return duties.
Several thousand supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonar on Sunday packed Copacaban Beach in Rio to show his support for the right -wing fiery brand, who was accused of trying to overthrow the left heir.
Bolsonaro, 69, invited a million demonstrations on the famous beach on Sunday in the power exhibition on the eve of the election next year, which hopes to be a candidate.
The aforementioned purpose of the set is to look for amnesty for hundreds of convicted for 8. January 2023 riots In the capital of Brasilia, when Bolsonaro supported the presidential palace, Congress and the Supreme Court.
“I want to tell all those who don’t like me in Brasilia [Brazil’s capital]: Election without Bolsonar Democracy in Brazil, “said the former head of the far right with his supporters on Sunday, referring to the ban on him seeking a re -election in 2026.
The 2019-2022 Brazilian President hopes to imitate the political return of US President Donald Trump. On stage, the banner showed Trump with a fist raised after attempting his life on the mark of campaign last year in Pennsylvania.
“I’m here because I want to leave a better Brazil for my children. We live in dark weather,” 64-year-old former military officer Jose de Souza Vitorino, who was among the protesters, told the AFP.
In January 2023. The rebellion sought to throw the army left -wing President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who The defeated archive of Bolsonaro In the elections in October 2022 and swore in just a week earlier.
The violent rating evoked the storm of the US Capitol building in Washington by Trump’s supporters almost exactly two years earlier.
Prosecutors believe that the riots were part of the criminal conspiracy that then President Bolsonaro threw out to overthrow the pipe and return to power.
On March 25, the Supreme Court of Brazil will consider whether there is enough evidence that will try Bolsonaro, who risks a prison sentence for more than 40 years.
‘Send a message’
Called “Trump Tropics”, Bolsonaro claims that, like Trump, the victim of a political persecution intended to be excluded from the search for a second term in the 2026 presidential election.
He was declared inappropriate to perform public function by 2030 because he made unfounded statements of fraud in the Brazilian electronic voting system, but hopes the ban will be canceled to return to the return.
Independent political analyst Andre Rosa said AFP that the actual purpose of calling was to protest on Sunday, so Bolsonaro could “send a message to his competitors on the right … and confirm his intention to be a candidate 2026”.
“I’m a candidate for now,” Bolsonaro told reporters in Brasilia this week.
There are also concerns for continuity at Lulina Camp, with concern about the health of the 79-year-old president and his popularity withdrawn with consumer inflation.
