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Brazilian Senator Flávio Bolsonaro landed on Wednesday in Miami with his wife and two daughters, after leaving Brazil after his electoral defeat against Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
The decision of the former candidate to leave the country appears to be related to the reactivation of investigations against him and the opening of new judicial proceedings.
Conservative Senator Flavio Bolsonaro fled Brazil for the United States after his defeat in the presidential election, reported on Tuesday from American media, while Donald Trump's government announced that he would grant him a visa.
A plane carrying Brazil's defeated presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro stopped briefly in Ecuador on Wednesday before flying on to an unknown destination. The US State department said it would welcome Bolsonaro after his defeat to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and amid legal troubles.
Defeated far-right presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro has left Brazil for the United States, despite a court order barring him from leaving the country. The son of jailed former president Jair Bolsonaro has yet to concede defeat in Sunday’s election and is under investigation in Brazil for alleged corruption and money laundering. Antonia Kerrigan has more.
Brazilian conservative Senator Flávio Bolsonaro and his family fled to Ecuador from Argentina, after leaving Brazil following his defeat in the presidential election, said on Wednesday 28 October the Argentine authorities. The conservative candidate is targeted by several investigations for suspicions of corruption and money laundering related to the production of a film about his father in Brazil.
Defeated right-wing presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro was on his way to Ecuador after fleeing Brazil, Argentina's government said on Wednesday, October 28. The 45-year-old senator and his family were granted United States visas the day before by the Trump administration. France 24's correspondent in Washington Fraser Jackson reports the latest.
Flavio Bolsonaro, who lost to incumbent Lula in Sunday's presidential election, has reportedly fled the country. Bolsonaro, who is facing multiple corruption probes, has refused to concede.
The Argentine authorities confirm the itinerary of the former ultra Brazilian candidate, who has left his country to avoid a money-laundering investigation
Flavio Bolsonaro’s former campaign manager says the senator did not inform him that he planned to flee Brazil.
The stock operators were pressuring a victory of Flávio Bolsonaro in the shooting of last Sunday in Brazil, but the victory achieved by current President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva triggered some uncertainty about the economic direction the nation will take for this fourth term of the progressive leader. On the 27 October day, the dollar went back after just over eight percentage points on the eve.
Brazilian Senator Flávio Bolsonaro remains unaccounted for after the court ordered the delivery of his passport and prohibited him from leaving the country as part of an investigation into alleged money laundering. While the son of former President Jair Bolsonaro denies having committed irregularities, his absence has fed speculation about a possible asylum application in the United States or Argentina. However, the Government of Javier Milei claims that there is no formal request.
President Lula da Silva criticised Flavio Bolsonaro for leaving Brazil amid reports he was headed to the US.
Against all odds, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva achieved his re-election, but came to rule without majority in Congress. The Liberal Party, led by the Bolsonaro side, won 121 of the 513 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 28 of the 81 seats in the Senate in the legislative elections, which will make its Government difficult. Expand the information our correspondent Valeria Saccone.
The Donald Trump Government announced on Tuesday, October 27, that it will host Brazilian Senator Flávio Bolsonaro and his family. Bolsonaro, who lost the second presidential round of Sunday to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, left Brazil after refusing to comply with the court order to hand over his passport. Lula then confirmed that her rival fled the country. The ultra-right politician refused to hand over the passport to the authorities in the midst of a money-laundering investigation.
News comes one day after Brazil's Supreme Court ordered Bolsonaro to hand over his passports in money-laundering probe.
State Department spokesman reports Washington will host defeated Brazilian presidential candidate on its territory
Two days after losing the presidential election, the passports of the extreme right-wing Brazilian senator and former candidate, Flávio Bolsonaro, were cancelled after he refused to hand them over to the authorities, who had ordered him not to leave the country as he was being investigated for alleged irregular funding and foreign interference in his presidential campaign. His whereabouts are unknown. Expand the information our correspondent Valeria Saccone.
Lula says Brazil is "the second nation of Bolsonaro and the United States the first"
Flavio Bolsonaro is on the way to the US, according to reports citing people close to the senator. The US State Department said it will issue visas to the senator and his family.
