The former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro has published an update on his health to social networks, after undergoing a sixth abdominal surgery that says he is related to a stabbing he suffered in the campaign in 2018.
On Tuesday, the leader of the extreme right shared a video of himself walking through a hospital corridor, electrodes glued to his bare chest and a walker keeping his stable steps. A medical personnel team flanked it on both sides.
“Don’t give up! Let’s move on, Brazil!” Bolsonaro wrote in a subtitle in the video.
In a second message, he explained that he remained in relative isolation, since his condition is delicate. Following the advice of his doctors, he said he is only interacting with family members and health professionals in an effort to take “maximum caution” that define his recovery.
“I still focus on the recovery process, which for what I understand was the most invasive procedure that has happened,” he said.
Last Friday, Bolsonaro announced that he was forced to cancel a rally in the northeast state of Rio Grande do Norte after suffering “severe abdominal pain”, as a result of “a complication in the small intestine.”
The 70 -year -old was first hospitalized at the Aluizio Bezerra Municipal Hospital in Santa Cruz, then at the Rio Grande Hospital in Natal, before being transferred to the capital, Brasilia.
His place of surgery toks more recently on Sunday at the DF Star hospital. The procedure lasted 12 hours, according to the president and his allies.
In his last pair or updates, Bolsonaro touched his rivals in the Workers Party, known as the PT. He stressed that his stabbing in September 2018 arrived at the hands of a “former member of the PSOL [the Socialism and Liberty Party]a historical ally of the PT ”.
Bolsonaro’s allies have repeatedly affirmed, without evidence, that left -wing leaders managed the attack, which took place when it was taken through a multitude of followers who last a campaign rally in Juiz de Fora. The Federal Police in Brazil has not found any connection between the PT and the attack.
But Bolsonaro has been accused or spreading conspiracy theories, partly in regard to its electoral rivals.
While he was in the campaign, both in 2018 and 2022, he spread rumors that Brazil’s electronic voting machines were not reliable and fraud full of fraud, an without foundation.
These comments led him to prohibit him from occupying a public office until 2030, with the judges of the Superior Electoral Court of Brazil, finding that he had abused his power while the president infused fears of the voting system.
Bolsonaro served as president of Brazil from 2019 to 2022. Since he left office, he has faced a series of legal battles, even about whether he participated in the efforts to destabilize the government of his successor, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
Lula is a member of the PT party, and in October 2022, he beat Bolsonaro in a runoff election to win a third non -consecutive mandate as president.
But agitation shook the period after the election. Bolsonaro refused to publicly recognize his defeat, although the media reports indicate that he did it in private. Neverberness, their supporters blocked the roads and also assaulted the headquarters of the Brasilia Police, while sought to prevent Lula from taking power.
Bolsonaro and his allies also tried to challenge the results in the Court, but Judge Alexandre de Moraes discovered that his complaint appeared in “total bad faith” and raised a fine of $ 4.3 million.
The tensions reached a boiling point shortly after the inauguration of Lula. On January 8, 2023, thousands of uprooters descended on the Plaza de Tres Powers in Brasilia, Hogar of Government Buildings for Congress, the Supreme Court and the Presidency.
There, they faced the police and destroyed several of the buildings, breaking windows, furniture and decorations.
Lula called an attempt at the coup d’etat and has pressed for justice. Althegh Bolsonaro was in Florida at the time of the attack on January 8, the critics accused him and his allies of secretly pressing the military to overthrow Lula.
On March 26, the Supreme Court of Brazil ordered Bolsonaro to allegedly lead an attempt at the coup d’etat.
The Federal Police had issued an 884 pages report in November last year Bolsonaro and another 36 for allegedly participating in a criminal conspiracy that would have killed Lula, his vice president and judge of Moraes.
The idea was to create a circumstance in which a caregiver and Bolsonaro would be created would return to power, according to the accusation.
Prosecutors have presented multiple charges against Bolsonaro, including that he sought the violent abolition of the Democratic Law rule. Bolsonaro, meanwhile, has coined his innocence and said he is a victim of political persecution.