Jailed former Brazil president Jair Bolsonaro undergoes hernia surgical procedure | EUROtoday

Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s former president, underwent double hernia surgical procedure right this moment in Brasilia, his household confirmed.

Hospitalized since Wednesday, he’s serving a 27-year jail sentence for an tried coup, imposed final November.

Court permission was granted after police docs confirmed the need because of ache. The DF Star hospital staff anticipates that the surgical procedure will final roughly 4 hours.

This follows a number of operations for the 2019-2022 chief since a 2018 marketing campaign rally stabbing.

Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who oversaw Bolsonaro’s coup trial and sentenced him to jail, approved the process, however denied the previous president’s request for home arrest after he leaves the hospital.

Bolsonaro would not have any contact with the few different inmates on the federal police headquarters in Brasilia, the place he’s held and the place his 12-square-meter (round 130-square-foot) room has a mattress, a non-public rest room, air-con, a tv and a desk, in keeping with authorities.

He has free entry to his docs and legal professionals, however different guests should obtain approval from the Supreme Court. On Wednesday, de Moraes approved Bolsonaro’s sons to go to him whereas he is hospitalized. His spouse, Michelle Bolsonaro, is accompanying him.

Early Thursday, his eldest son, Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro, instructed reporters earlier than the surgical procedure that his father had written a letter confirming he had appointed him as his political get together’s presidential candidate in subsequent yr’s election. Flávio Bolsonaro introduced on Dec. 5 that he’ll problem President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who’s in search of a fourth nonconsecutive time period, because the candidate of Bolsonaro’s Liberal Party.

The senator learn the letter to journalists, and his workplace launched a replica of it to the media.

“He represents the continuation of the path of prosperity that I began well before becoming president, as I believe we must restore the responsibility of leading Brazil with justice, resolve and loyalty to the aspirations of the Brazilian people,” Bolsonaro mentioned within the handwritten letter, dated Dec. 25.

The former president and several other of his allies have been convicted by a panel of Supreme Court justices for trying to overthrow Brazil’s democratic system following his 2022 election defeat.

The plot included plans to kill Lula, Vice President Geraldo Alckmin and de Moraes. There was additionally a plan to encourage an riot in early 2023.

Bolsonaro was additionally convicted on expenses that embody main an armed felony group and trying the violent abolition of the democratic rule of legislation. He has denied any wrongdoing.