According to the Entrepreneurng report, Jair Bolsonaro, the former president of Brazil, has returned from his self-imposed exile in the United States.
The former leader of the far-right party took a commercial aircraft from Florida, where he had spent the previous three months, to the nation’s capital, Brasilia.
Brazilian flag-draped supporters screamed “legend,” but the former president was escorted out through a side entrance. He hasn’t been back in his native nation since his supporters stormed Congress on January 8th.
A probe into whether he incited the rioting is underway. How many people would show up to welcome the former leader back after an absence of 89 days had been highly discussed?
Police have taken precautions after the violence started by his followers on January 8th, including cordoning off the capital’s major esplanade.
According to the Brazilian news outlet O Globo, when his plane landed at the airport at 06:37 local time (09:37 GMT), there were more police officers present than supporters.
After learning that Mr. Bolsonaro’s father had left for the Liberal Party’s headquarters, where he is a member, his supporters, who had hoped to see the former president, have now started departing the venue.
“There, he made a brief speech to the other Liberal Party representatives and made fun of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s administration by declaring: “Those individuals in authority today won’t be able to just do what they like.”
Before departing for Florida, Mr. Bolsonaro told CNN that he would not lead the opposition to the current president, known as Lula. However, the leader of the Liberal Party has stated that he would like to see Mr. Bolsonaro campaign for the party ahead of local elections next year.
Experts have noted that other conservative politicians in Brazil have risen to prominence in his three-month absence.
On December 30, only two days before he was scheduled to give over the presidency to his challenger Lula, Mr. Bolsonaro departed Brazil aboard a Brazilian air force aircraft.
On October 30, Lula narrowly defeated Mr. Bolsonaro in the presidential run-off; nevertheless, the far-right leader never acknowledged his loss in the media.
Many of his followers did not accept Lula’s victory either, and they camped out in front of army installations to persuade the military to remove the newly elected leader.
The democratic transfer of power to Lula was supported by Brazil’s institutions, including the military, and Mr. Bolsonaro virtually vanished from public view, seldom leaving the presidential residence and behaving in an unusually quiet manner on social media.
But, a week after Lula assumed office, his followers were anything but calm as they ransacked important government facilities in Brasilia.
Investigators contend that Mr. Bolsonaro, who was in Florida when Brazil’s Congress was stormed, incited the rioters with his rhetoric by constantly contesting the validity of the election results and declaring that only death or God could remove him from office.
In conclusion, he also has to deal with other legal issues in addition to the inquiry into potential inciting. The question of whether he attempted to unlawfully import and retain jewelry worth millions of dollars that Saudi Arabia gave him and his wife in 2019 is also being investigated.
Source: PunchÂ
