“I’m on a flight, I’ll be back soon”. When last Friday, Jair Bolsonaro boarded a Brazilian Air Force plane at the Brasilia Air Base, along with his family and various advisers, heading for the US, lane crossing protocol and responsibility for anything that could go wrong in a country that helped polarize.
The response that the outgoing president gave to CNN Brazil, after days before having denied him the trip to North American territory, reflected not only that escape, as it also opened the door to a return – an inevitable return.
Two months after the electoral defeat, the future of Jair Bolsonaro remains unknown, a fog that thickens with the prolonged silence of the outgoing president, who has avoided speaking out since he lost in the second round. Without expressly acknowledging Lula’s victory, his statements have been balanced in a constant and careful balance.. If, on the one hand, it has called the electorate to mourning –and with this validated the “feeling of injustice” of those who believe in the thesis of fraud–, on the other hand, it has been feeding hope in the continuity of Bolsonarismo (if not Bolsonaro himself).
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Source: Observadora
