Bolsonaro declares he will leave politics if he loses elections

The Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, stated that if he loses the October elections, he will leave politics, a possibility he had never considered until now.

“If that is God’s will, I will continue; if not, I will hand over the presidential sash and retire because, at my age, I have nothing more to do here on Earth if this step in politics ends on December 31 of this year,” he declared in an interview to a group of conservative podcasts, as reported by the newspaper Folha de S.Paulo.

Until now, Bolsonaro had never spoken so openly about the possibility of peacefully accepting an electoral defeat since, on several occasions, he went so far as to say that “only God” would remove him from the presidential chair.

Even so, during the interview, Bolsonaro spoke on several occasions of the need to guarantee “clean elections“.

The Brazilian president also apologized for some past statements, such as when he said, “what do you want me to do? I am not a gravedigger,” in response to a question about the deaths caused by COVID-19.

“I lost the line; I regret it,” confessed about this particular episode the patriotic leader, who added that in the last year, his behavior changed and that his office is a continuous learning process.

Brazil’s elections will be held on October 2, and the president elected at the polls will take office on January 1; former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (2003-2011) is the favorite in all mainstream media polls.

With information from Sputnik

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