Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, announced on Friday that he will be a candidate in Brazil's presidential elections, which will take place next year. In this way, he will face the current president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who defeated his father in the 2022 elections and will seek re-election. In a statement, the legislator informed that the decision was made by his father, who is serving a 27-year and 3-month prison sentence at the headquarters of the Federal Police of Brasília. He was convicted for attempting a coup d'état at the end of 2022 to deny Lula's electoral victory. 'I confirm with great responsibility the decision of the main political and moral leader of Brazil, Jair Messias Bolsonaro, to give me the mission of continuing our national project,' said Flávio Bolsonaro, a 44-year-old senator for the state of Rio de Janeiro. In this way, the Liberal Party determined the succession for the opposition of the far right represented by the Bolsonaro family, according to the Argentine News agency. On the other hand, according to the leaders of the PL, the campaign agenda should include a project to grant amnesty or a pardon to Jair Bolsonaro and other former military and former officials convicted of planning the attempted coup. Flávio Bolsonaro is a political ally of Javier Milei, and when he won the elections, he dedicated a message to him on the social network X: 'Little by little we are defeating the left and communism in Latin America. Milei is a decisive step towards freedom'.
