Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, the eldest son of Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro who is now running for president himself, tells Reuters he might visit Israel next month as part of a planned trip abroad.
Stops also may include the United States, Argentina, Chile, Europe and other destinations in the Middle East.
In his first interview with international media since declaring his presidential ambitions this month, the senator says he plans a presidential campaign next year to moderate the family legacy while delivering smaller government, tax cuts and privatizations.
Elected to Brazil’s Senate in 2018 on the conservative wave that brought his father to the presidency, he vows to take up the mantle of the elder Bolsonaro’s market-friendly reforms while distancing himself from right-wing culture wars.
“I consider myself, truly, a more centered Bolsonaro,” he says in a Friday afternoon interview from his Brasilia office, decorated with miniatures of his father and US President Donald Trump. “I’ve always had this profile: being more moderate, more measured.”
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