Overview
- Doctors report a successful bilateral inguinal hernia operation in Brasília, with Bolsonaro now eating, on thrombosis prevention medication, and beginning physiotherapy.
- His medical team will evaluate a possible procedure to partially block a diaphragm nerve to control recurrent hiccups and related reflux symptoms.
- From the hospital, Bolsonaro issued a handwritten letter designating Senator Flávio Bolsonaro as his 2026 presidential precandidate, which Flávio read publicly outside DF Star.
- Judge Alexandre de Moraes authorized the hospital transfer but denied house arrest, barred electronic devices in the room, limited visits to immediate family, and maintained a 24-hour police guard.
- The endorsement reshapes Brazil’s conservative field as São Paulo governor Tarcísio de Freitas weighs his own ambitions, while Lula seeks centrist alliances and leads early polling; in a related case, convicted ex–highway police chief Silvinei Vasques was detained in Paraguay after breaking his ankle monitor.