Former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) denied on Monday that he gave up running the 2026 presidential elections. In a video published on social networks, he said he is still ineligible, but refuted information released by the radio Young Pan About a possible departure from you, son Eduardo Bolsonaro and former first lady Michelle Bolsonaro from the electoral scene.
“No young pan is information that I’m out, Eduardo is out and want to put Michelle out too. There is no such thing. What I said to the young Pan is that at the moment I am ineligible,” Bolsonaro said.
Bolsonaro’s response occurred after the station said the former president would have said, in a telephone conversation with journalist Bruno Pinheiro, that he and his children were out of dispute and that the system was trying to “take” Michelle as well.
According to the station, Bolsonaro would have said:
“What does Trump want? May everyone participate in the election. Justice takes off the electoral ballot those who don’t matter to the system. I’m out, Eduardo, my son, is practically out.
In the video posted on the networks, Bolsonaro denied having given the interview:
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“Unfortunately, the young man paniating that he talked to me and that these facts were exposed.”
Political crisis
The repercussion occurred amid the diplomatic crisis generated by. US President Donald Trump, Bolsonaro’s political ally, justified the measure by stating that Brazil would be “unfair” with its predecessor and cited the judicial proceedings for attempted coup as one of the reasons for the tariff decision.
Bolsonaro’s allies have sought to minimize the impacts of Trump’s speech, while members of the Lula Government (PT) began to associate the taxation with articulations made by Eduardo Bolsonaro in the US, including with White House parliamentarians and advisors.
