Brazil’s ex-president Jair Bolsonaro, hospitalized in the northeastern city of Natal after complaining of “unbearable” abdominal pain, will be transferred later today to a hospital in Brasilia, a senator from his party announces.
“He will be transported by plane in the afternoon to Brasilia,” Senator Rogerio Marinho of the far-right Liberal Party tells journalists a day after Bolsonaro took ill.
Marinho had accompanied the former president on a multi-city tour in Rio Grande do Norte state, but the trip was cut short when the 70-year-old Bolsonaro complained of “unbearable pain” linked to a serious knife attack he suffered during a 2018 election campaign.
Bolsonaro was elected president just weeks after that attack conducted by a man who said he was following orders “from God.” But the stabbing took a long-term toll, leading to repeated hospitalizations and surgeries.
His latest setback occurred two weeks after the country’s Supreme Court ruled that Bolsonaro should face trial on charges of plotting a coup after he lost the presidency to Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in the 2022 election.
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