Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was received this Sunday by a crowd at the airport in the city of Ribeirao Preto, in what was his first public act since he returned to Brazil after spending three months in the US at the end of his term.
Hundreds of followers of the right-wing leader cheered him at the airport of this city in the interior of the state of Sao Paulo and an equally large group accompanied him, in a caravan of vehicles and motorcycles, on a journey that Bolsonaro made in the body of a truck between the air terminal and a nearby farm where he stayed.
In an act with the atmosphere of an electoral campaign, the followers of the ex-president, who gathered at the airport several hours before the arrival of the leader of the Liberal Party (PL), shouted slogans against the current president, the leftist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva .
Bolsonaro disembarked in Ribeirao Preto to visit the International Agricultural Technology Fair (Agroshow), to which he was invited by employers of rural producers, one of the sectors that benefited the most in the right-wing government.
This was the first time that Bolsonaro has left Brasilia to participate in a public event since he disembarked in Brazil exactly 30 days ago. Until now he had attended an act at the headquarters of the Liberal Party, in which he was proclaimed leader of the opposition to Lula, and two interrogations to which he was subjected by the Federal Police in the framework of processes in which he is accused.
The first, due to his supposed attempt to appropriate some valuable jewels he received from Saudi Arabia, and the second, for allegedly having encouraged the coup acts on January 8, when thousands of Bolsonaristas assaulted the offices of the Presidency, Congress and the Supreme Court in an attempt to force a coup against Lula.
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