Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, son of jailed former President Jair Bolsonaro, announced this weekend that he would run for president in the 2026 election – but would step down from the campaign should his father be freed and allowed to run for a second term.

The younger Bolsonaro confirmed on social media on Friday that he would run for president with his father’s blessing, ending a period of uncertainty for Brazilian conservatives given multiple prominent potential candidates, including Flavio’s stepmother Michelle Bolsonaro and the conservative Governor Tarcísio de Freitas of Sao Paulo. Senator Bolsonaro asserted that he had discussed the presidential election with his father and that the former president had chosen his eldest child as a candidate.

On Sunday, speaking to reporters

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