Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has said he sees three alternatives for his future: prison, death or victory in next year’s presidential election.
The right-wing populist leader is trailing left-wing former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the polls. “I have three alternatives for my future: being arrested, killed or victory,” he told evangelical leaders. But the former military officer said there was no chance of prison because “no man on Earth will threaten me”.
Mr Bolsonaro was nearly stabbed to death on the campaign trail in 2018. His remarks come amid fierce tensions between him and the country’s judiciary and election authorities. The 66-year-old president, who hopes for a second term next year, has been questioning Brazil’s electronic voting system and threatened not to accept the result of next year’s presidential election.