2024 US presidential election: Brazil’s Bolsonaro hopes for Trump’s White House comeback
- Former Brazilian president told conservative supporters that the right-wing was gaining ground internationally
Brazilian far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro at a rally of conservative supporters on Saturday said the right was gaining ground internationally, in Italy and France, and said he hoped that former US president Donald Trump will be returned to the White House this year.
“God willing, it will be Trump in November,” he told a cheering crowd of 3,500 supporters at the CPAC Brasil 2024 event at the beach resort of Balneario Camboriu in Southern Brazil.
The event was intended to drum up support for Bolsonaro’s party’s candidates in this year’s municipal elections and project his influence ahead of the 2026 presidential race.
The rally was billed as the first major opposition rally of the campaign for local mayoral elections in October.
“We want Bolsonaro back,” chanted some at the event who want to see him back in power, although Bolsonaro has been banned from seeking elected office until 2030 for attacks on democracy.
Speakers attacked Brazil’s current government of leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, calling it corrupt. They advocated Christian pro-life family values and a ban on abortion in speeches that were pro-gun and anti-drug.
“It will be very important for us to once again bring together Conservatives with a liberal view of the economy to discuss the future of the right-wing in Brazil,” said former environment minister Ricardo Salles on CPAC Brasil social media.