Overview
- Surgeons at DF Star in Brasília repaired bilateral inguinal hernias with mesh in a procedure lasting about three and a half hours, and Bolsonaro was moved to a room in stable condition.
- Supreme Federal Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes authorized the hospitalization and surgery while Bolsonaro serves a roughly 27-year sentence, with Federal Police guarding his room.
- From the hospital, Bolsonaro issued a handwritten letter naming Senator Flávio Bolsonaro as his 2026 presidential pre-candidate, a message the senator read outside the facility.
- Doctors plan inpatient recovery with physiotherapy for five to seven days and will evaluate a possible procedure to partially block a diaphragmatic nerve to address recurrent hiccups.
- Following discharge, he is set to return to his prison cell rather than receive home detention, according to the court’s decision.