Brasilia – Sen. Flavio Bolsonaro said on Friday that his father, former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, has backed him for a presidential run next year, jilting markets that had bet on a more seasoned candidate consolidating support on the right.
The senator wrote on social media that his father had chosen him for “the mission of carrying on our project for the nation.”
The head of Bolsonaro’s right-wing Liberal Party, Valdemar Costa Neto, confirmed in a statement that the ex-president, who is serving time for a failed coup plot, had tapped his eldest son as the party’s presidential candidate.
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