(Reuters)-Former President Jair Bolsonaro is clinically stable after 12-hour surgery on Sunday, due to an intestinal obstruction, according to a medical report released tonight.
Bolsonaro “underwent extensive adhesion lysis surgery and abdominal wall reconstruction,” says the bulletin, citing that the large procedure occurred without complications and without blood transfusion.
“Intestinal obstruction was the result of a thin intestine fold that hindered intestinal transit and was undone during the adhesion release procedure,” details the DF Star report.
Also according to the document, the former president “is at the moment in the intensive care unit, clinically stable, without pain, receiving measures of clinical, nutritional support and prevention of infections.”
The bulletin is signed by doctors Claudio Birolini, head of the surgical team; Leandro Echenique and Ricardo Camarinha, cardiologists; Guilherme Meyer, Medical Director of DF Star Hospital; and Allisson Barcelos Borges, Director General of DF Star.
Prior to the newsletter, Bolsonaro’s wife Michelle published on social networks that surgery is “successfully completed”.
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The former first lady also said that “soon, doctors will give a press conference with more information”
The surgery started at 08:30 and was scheduled to last six hours, but extended due to its complexity.
Bolsonaro, 70, was hospitalized on Friday after experiencing severe abdominal pain on Friday when he was visiting in the interior of Rio Grande do Norte, as part of a spin from various locations in the country to raise political support. He was transferred to Brasilia, where he resides on Saturday night.
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The former president has suffered other episodes of intestinal obstruction in recent years, which his doctors have pointed out to be a consequence of surgeries in the abdominal region to which he was stabbed in 2018 in Juiz de Fora (MG) during a campaign in that year’s presidential election-won by him.
Amnesty
He has been campaigning in Brazil for Congress to take advantage of an amnesty bill for its supporters who invaded the capital after he lost the 2022 election.
In a message to allies before surgery, the former president criticized the punishment against a supporter who could be sentenced to 10 years in prison, and again asked Congress to enjoy amnesty project.
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“God enlightens each of the 513 deputies and 81 senators in their votes. If with our decisions we have paved our eternity, this vote has a capital weight.”
Last month, the former president became a defendant before the Supreme Federal Court (STF) accused of leading an attempt to coup after being defeated in the 2022 presidential election.
The complaint positions Bolsonaro as the leader of a criminal organization who acted to counteract the outcome of the polls after the defeat of the then president in the 2022 election to now President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
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He has denied any irregularity and called the process of an example of “clear judicial activism of the left” against conservative leaders like him and the French Marine Le Pen.
In addition to this and other cases he still faces in the Supreme Court, Bolsonaro is also ineligible by 2030 due to two convictions in the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) for abuse of political power in the 2022 election campaign.
