Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro lamented Tuesday from the Orlando hospital where he is hospitalized for abdominal pain from a 2018 stabbing that he has not had «quiet days» since he has been in the United States, referring to his abdominal pain and, without citing, the «regrettable episode» that his supporters staged on Sunday.
«This is already my third admission for severe intestinal obstruction. I came to spend some time away with the family, but I have not had quiet days. First, there was that unfortunate episode in Brazil and then my admission to the hospital,» he lamented.
Bolsonaro explained that although the initial intention was to remain in the United States until the end of January, the health problems that have forced his admission to a hospital in Orlando have caused him to postpone his return to Brazil, in the midst of a political crisis due to the anti-democratic acts carried out by his followers.
«In Brazil the doctors already know about my intestinal obstruction problem due to the stabbing. Here the doctors will not follow up», said Bolsonaro in statements to CNN, echoed by the newspaper ‘O Globo’.
Bolsonaro, who has been in the United States since last August 30 — two days before Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva took office –, has been admitted this Monday to a hospital in Orlando, Florida, for the sequelae left by a stabbing he received in 2018 in the middle of the election campaign and that since then has caused him to be hospitalized on several occasions.
He had previously referred to that «regrettable episode» that had thousands of his followers as protagonists, invading the headquarters of the three branches of the Brazilian State, disengaging himself and denying that he had any kind of responsibility in them.
However, several congressmen have begun to gather the necessary support to establish a special parliamentary commission to investigate his degree of involvement in acts for which the more than one thousand detainees may face charges related to terrorism, rebellion and coup d’état.
While he continues his stay in the United States, the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Antonio Tajani, has had to respond on Tuesday to rumors that the former Brazilian president had applied for Italian citizenship.
«He did not ask for it and I do not believe he can have it,» Tajani said in the Italian press after the Italian opposition has been questioning the government in this regard after it became known that in November, a few days after Lula’s victory in the elections, two of his sons, Flavio and Eduardo, requested at the Italian Embassy in Brasilia the opening of a process to obtain citizenship.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
