"On Tuesday, Bolsonaro met with reporters outside federal police headquarters in the capital Brasilia, where his father, former President Jair Bolsonaro, is serving a 27-year sentence for attempting to foment a coup. list of 3 itemsend of list The younger Bolsonaro said he conveyed to his father that he would not shrink from the 2026 race. I told him this candidacy is irreversible, Flavio said. And in his own words, We will not turn back.'"
"On Sunday, Flavio raised eyebrows when he told Brazilian media that he could exit the race for the right price. There's a possibility I won't go all the way, Flavio said at the time. I have a price for that. I will negotiate. He declined to name what that price would be, but his comments were widely interpreted to be a reference to his father's imprisonment."
"In September, a panel on Brazil's Supreme Court convicted Jair of five charges related to his attempts to overturn the 2022 presidential election, including one count of seeking the violent abolition of the democratic rule of law. Jair lost the 2022 race to current Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a left-wing leader who has announced he will run for a fourth term in 2026."
Flavio Bolsonaro reaffirmed his commitment to run in Brazil's 2026 presidential race and said his candidacy is irreversible after meeting his father at federal police headquarters in Brasilia. His father, Jair Bolsonaro, is serving a 27-year sentence for attempting to foment a coup and was convicted by a Supreme Court panel on five charges related to efforts to overturn the 2022 election. Flavio attempted to clarify earlier comments that he might exit the race "for the right price," saying he will negotiate but declining to name a price. Jair was ordered into custody after admitting to damaging his ankle monitor and faces an eight-year bar from public office.
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