Bolsonaro dynasty eyes comeback as Brazil’s socialist president faces challenge from jailed rival’s son

FIRST ON FOX: Eduardo Bolsonaro, lad of the presently incarcerated erstwhile Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, is simply a antheral connected an unofficial diplomatic ngo successful the United States. His nonsubjective is to escaped his father, who is presently serving a 27-year condemnation astatine the Federal Police office successful the nation's capital.

Convicted connected charges of plotting a coup d'état, starring an equipped transgression enactment and attempting to violently abolish the antiauthoritarian regularisation of law, Jair Bolsonaro remains a fashionable yet arguable fig successful Brazil, and who inactive commands a devoted pursuing nationwide, particularly successful the confederate strongholds of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's lad announces biopic portion member Senator Flávio Bolsonaro enters 2026 statesmanlike contention from situation endorsement. (Ton Molina/Getty Images/ Evaristo Sa / AFP via Getty Images)

Eduardo Bolsonaro has pursued a "maximum unit campaign" against the existent Brazilian authorities connected behalf of his father, lobbying the Trump medication for sanctions against the country, and for Magnitsky sanctions against the caput of the Brazilian Supreme Court Alexandre de Moraes.

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In 2022, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva narrowly defeated incumbent Bolsonaro successful the closest predetermination since Brazil's 1985 instrumentality to democracy. This followed Lula's melodramatic merchandise from situation by the Brazilian Supreme Court successful 2019, wherever helium was serving a condemnation for corruption.

While galore expected São Paulo Governor Tarcisio de Freitas to tally successful 2026, helium declined, clearing the mode for the erstwhile president's different son, Sen. Flavio Bolsonaro, who declared his candidacy past December.

Speaking to Fox News Digital astatine the Hispanic Prosperity Gala astatine Mar-a-Lago Eduardo Bolsonaro discussed the contiguous situation.

"A batch of polls are showing that my brother, Senator Flavio (Bolsonaro), is tied and immoderate of them he's a small spot ahead… Flavio conscionable launched, conscionable announced that helium is going to run. It was a large determination that Jair Bolsonaro took, recognizing that it would beryllium intolerable for him to tally successful the October election, for sure, due to the fact that he's successful jailhouse now. Unfairly, but helium is. This is simply a fact."

Eduardo Bolsonaro believes the nation's economical and information issues volition propel his member to victory.

"The strategy of Flavio is to amusement however atrocious the Lula medication is, chiefly successful system and besides successful security. These are areas wherever Flavio is doing precise well… everybody's fed up with Lula supporting Hamas, expanding criminality, and not doing a large occupation successful the economical area. So, Flavio, for definite his absorption is going to beryllium connected the system and information to decision Lula."

While Flavio Bolsonaro and Lula are intelligibly the apical 2 contenders, respective different right-wing and center-right candidates person entered the race, including Minas Gerais Governor Romeu Zema, Parana Governor Ratinho Junior and Goias Governor Ronaldo Caiado. 

President of Brazil Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva speaks during the 80th league of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) astatine the United Nations office connected September 23, 2025 successful New York City. World leaders convened for the 80th Session of UNGA, with this year’s taxable for the yearly planetary gathering being "Better together: 80 years and much for peace, improvement and quality rights." (Photo by Taylor Hill/Getty Images)

Eduardo Bolsonaro dismisses concerns that the existent electoral script could divided the ballot and pb to a first-round electoral triumph for Lula.

"It doesn't substance who is going to the 2nd round; against Lula, everybody volition beryllium together. Because we each cognize that the worst that tin hap to the state is the re-election of Lula da Silva. So these polls that are trying to accidental that Lula… tin triumph successful the archetypal round, if the right-wing question splits the votes betwixt these candidates, this is simply a lie. For sure, this is not going to happen."

"And for sure, it's precise bully that we person much candidates connected the right-wing… Why? Because they volition each knock Lula da Silva. So, adjacent Flavio is publically saying that it would beryllium a bully happening to bash to enactment much and much candidates for the right… against Lula."

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While erstwhile president Bolsonaro is incarcerated, his question enjoys beardown enactment successful the Brazilian Congress, which precocious passed authorities that would dramatically chopped his situation sentence. 

However, Lula vetoed the authorities successful January, which means that Congress whitethorn present question to override that veto. Additionally, the Supreme Court, which is unfavorably disposed to Bolsonaro, whitethorn besides reappraisal the authorities connected grounds of constitutionality.

Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes. President Donald Trump.  (Getty Images)

"Everything that the Supreme Court does not like, they accidental that this is against our constitution. It's the mode that they effort to get each of the powerfulness implicit the legislative [branch], and adjacent sometimes the enforcement power. So, this is 1 much section of this agelong penetration by the judiciary… Lula da Silva doing the veto against this measure that was approved by the Congress lone shows that helium is ever speaking with the left-wing bubble, he's talking to the extremist near people."

Eduardo Bolsonaro believes the Brazilian radical enactment his begetter implicit the Supreme Court, and points retired that his begetter was not adjacent contiguous successful Brazil for the Jan. 8 riots.

"In Brazil they bash not o.k. [of the veto], they are fed up with each of this… On the precise aforesaid time [Jan. 8, 2023]… the ‘protest dictator’, Jair Bolsonaro, was successful Orlando, successful Disney World. So everybody knows this is simply a fake happening and nary 1 tin enactment immoderate much debates astir this."

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and President Donald Trump feud implicit tariffs and Brazil's attraction of Bolsonaro. (Adriano Machado/Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters)

"That's wherefore Jair Bolsonaro is successful jailhouse due to the fact that if helium wasn't convicted to 27 years successful jail, helium would beryllium escaped to run, and for definite helium would beryllium the adjacent president of Brazil. That's the lone crushed that helium is successful jail: due to the fact that of governmental reasons. That is wherefore erstwhile Flavio Bolsonaro gets elected successful October and changes the governmental scenario, this volition besides alteration the script wrong the judiciary of Brazil."

Eduardo Bolsonaro is wholly focused connected his member Flavio's 2026 statesmanlike run arsenic the means to freeing his begetter from prison.

"Now, I lone person 1 role… electing Flávio Bolsonaro, and helium volition springiness the pardon to Jair. Not lone to Jair, but besides to me. I americium accused of committing crimes successful the United States due to the fact that I was talking with authorities, American authorities, and they see this an onslaught against the sovereignty of Brazil."

"The justice of the Supreme Court, Alexandre de Moraes, who got sanctioned by the Trump medication with the enactment of Scott Bessent and Marco Rubio, helium blames maine for that. But arsenic helium does not person the courageousness to writer Trump, Bessent and Rubio, he's suing maine for that. So we anticipation that Flavio is going to get elected and past arsenic president helium has the powerfulness to pardon me, my begetter and much than 400 blimpish radical that are successful jail."

While the Bolsonaros person historically performed precise good successful the vote-rich and affluent confederate states of Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Minas Gerais, they person underperformed successful Brazil's poorer Northeast region, which is wherever Lula is primitively from.

Yet, Bolsonaro promises a beardown showing nationwide, and says that voters successful the Northeast are acceptable for a change:

"It's bringing the truth. People nowadays cognize that the ‘assistencialismo’ (populist societal assistance for purposes of vote-buying), that is the mode that Lula gets this precocious magnitude of votes successful the Northeast of Brazil."

Rio de Janeiro governmental protest (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

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"We are besides going beardown successful the Northeast. The Northeast, you're going to see, it's not anymore a portion of Brazil that is nether the [control of] Lula."

Eduardo Bolsonaro weighed successful connected caller U.S. subject enactment successful Venezuela, and pledged a renewed U.S.-Brazilian geopolitical relationship, and afloat enactment for American enactment against Communist regimes:

"Maduro is not the president anymore and successful Nicaragua Daniel Ortega arrested 7 opponents… that were moving for president. How tin you see this a democracy? So, for sure, it's not a democracy. There is nary quality betwixt these guys and Chapo oregon Pablo Escobar. The quality is lone that Nicolás Maduro and Daniel Ortega took implicit the country, they took implicit the institutions."

"So everybody, not lone Venezuela, but besides Brazil, is truly blessed that the large subject of the United States arrested Maduro… It's bringing anticipation to the people. And for sure, we bash enactment them, not lone successful public… but besides successful planetary forums."

This interrogation was lightly edited for benignant and clarity.