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The former far-right leader was stabbed in the abdomen by a lunatic during a crowd, a month before the election which he ended up winning.
A convoy of vehicles with tinted windows arrived early Monday afternoon at the Vila Nova Star hospital, a posh private clinic in Sao Paulo, noted an AFP journalist.
This clinic had confirmed just before that Mr. Bolsonaro would be hospitalized there.
“We have arrived in Sao Paulo, pray for the surgery that will take place tomorrow,” former First Lady Michelle Bolsonaro wrote on Instagram, a message illustrated with a photo of her with her husband, smiling, in a vehicle.
Fabio Wajngarten, close collaborator of the ex-president, explained to AFP that the two operations planned for Tuesday aim to remedy the after-effects of the 2018 attack, such as intestinal obstructions, hernias or adhesions. fabrics.
Mr. Bolsonaro was hospitalized in the same clinic for two days at the end of August, for “routine examinations” linked to these complications.
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