SAO PAULO — Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was hospitalized Friday morning with stomach ache whereas touring in northeastern Brazil, his political social gathering mentioned.
The ache was associated to long-term results of a stabbing to the stomach he suffered in September 2018, the press workplace of his Liberal Get together mentioned.
Bolsonaro has been out and in of hospitals because the incident at a marketing campaign occasion earlier than Brazil’s 2018 presidential election. The conservative chief underwent a number of surgical procedures throughout his presidency from 2019-2022.
He was admitted Friday to a hospital in Santa Cruz, a small metropolis within the northeastern state of Rio Grande do Norte. Sen. Flavio Bolsonaro, considered one of his sons, mentioned he could be transferred to a hospital within the state’s capital, Natal.
Bolsonaro was set to begin a visit throughout the northeastern area to advertise his social gathering’s right-wing agenda, eyeing subsequent 12 months’s presidential election, although he himself is barred from operating. The area historically has been a political bastion of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
In March, a panel of Brazil Supreme Court docket justices accepted prices in opposition to Bolsonaro over an alleged try to remain in workplace after his 2022 election defeat, and ordered him to face trial.
The previous president was additionally barred from operating for workplace till 2030 by Brazil’s electoral courtroom, for making unfounded claims that voting machines had been rigged.
