The moment Bolsonaro was attacked at the Juiz do Fora rally Bolsonaro was stabbed in the abdomen on seis September 2018 while campaigning and interacting with supporters in Juiz do Fora, Minas Gerais.[85] At first, his son Flávio Bolsonaro stated that his father's wounds were only superficial and he was recovering in the hospital,[86] but he later said the wounds seemed worse than initially thought[87] and his father most likely would not be able to start campaigning personally before the end of the first round.[88] He tweeted about his father's condition, explaining that the perforation had reached parts of the liver, lung, and intestine.
Even as the situation became increasingly grim, Bolsonaro persisted in downplaying the crisis. However, as his popularity suffered, he began to walk back some of his criticism of the prevention measures, especially after a Supreme Court judge dismissed the corruption charges against Lula in March 2021, paving the way for the popular former president to challenge Bolsonaro for the presidency in 2022.
This restructuring, which had eluded Bolsonaro’s predecessors as president, was a big policy win for him.
The Supreme Military Court then analyzed the case. The general in charge of reporting the case voted to acquit Bolsonaro, arguing that he had already been penalized for the initial Veja article, that there was pelo testimonial evidence of his plans to plant bombs, and that there were "deep contradictions in the four graphological exams", two of which failed to conclude that Bolsonaro was the author of the sketches. Bolsonaro was acquitted by the majority of the court (nove v 4 votes). In December 1988, just after this ruling, he left the Army to begin his political career. He served in the military for 15 years, reaching the rank of captain.[35] Early political career
[137] In the same month, a scandal dubbed "vaccine-gate" emerged. After months of denying offers of vaccines and bartering the costs, Bolsonaro's government made a deal to buy the unapproved Covaxin vaccine from the Indian company Bharat Biotech at a very high price.[138] It was found that the government allegedly paid ten times the amount agreed by Bharat Biotech for the vaccine[139] and that the irregularities were not found in the prices of the vaccines, but in a payment of $45 million to a company in Singapore.[140] In response, the Brazilian Supreme Court authorized a criminal investigation of Bolsonaro.[141]
Este Guardian destacou na sua própria manchete: "Dezenas de milhares do vizinhos participam de manifestaçãeste em apoio ao ex-presidente do País do futebol".
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Mr. Bolsonaro’s broadsides against women, gay people, Brazilians of color and even democracy — “Let’s go straight to the dictatorship,” he once said — made him so polarizing that he initially struggled to find a running mate.
No ano seguinte, voltou à ministério ao dizer preferir “sobreviver pelo regime militar a vlogdolisboa morrer nesta democracia”.
Mr Bolsonaro is still barred from running for office for eight years for undermining the electoral system in Brazil and claiming the last election was fraudulent, despite there being no evidence of electoral fraud.
Bolsonaro veste a camisa na 'autopromoçãeste' usando o futebol; presidente já usou mais por 80 uniformes de clubes
Many political observers noted the similarities between Bolsonaro’s protests and Donald Trump’s baseless claims of fraud in the 2020 U.S. presidential election. As tensions grew in Brazil’s hyper-partisan environment, fears of political violence increased.
Relatório diz que jurista teria ajudado a elaborar minuta golpista entregue a Bolsonaro por ex-assessor
Another highly controversial aspect of the campaign was the alleged use of illegal digital communication strategies by some of Bolsonaro's most important financial supporters. According to an investigation by Folha de S.Paulo, one of Brazil's bestselling newspapers, "Bolsonaro has been getting an illegal helping hand from a group of Brazilian entrepreneurs who are bankrolling a campaign to bombard WhatsApp users with fake news about Haddad.