Brown Pill — A Pílula Marrom (Novo)

• He recounts visiting his father, Jair Bolsonaro (under house arrest), on Monday after the election (at around 10 a.m.). They discussed the results and the future; his father was in good spirits. At the end of the authorized 30-minute visit, he was informed that Federal Police officers were waiting at the door. As he left, he was served with a ruling by Alexandre de Moraes (issued minutes after the Superior Electoral Court's announcement) ordering the seizure of their passports and prohibiting them from leaving the country. He says his father, with tears in his eyes, asked the officers to step aside and then asked: “Do you already know where they’re trying to take this?”. Flávio replied that he did, that God was in control, and that he would fight back. • He states: “I didn’t leave Brazil; I left for Brazil.” He said his departure was a strategic move to maintain an active voice, since in Brazil he would be “silenced, imprisoned, and censored,” like his father. He denied that it was an “escape” or a sign of weakness, calling it a “situational assessment” and “one step back to take two steps forward.” The decision was made in secret (only his wife knew) to prevent it from being thwarted. No one from the campaign team was informed or involved. • He repeats: “I lost to the system, not to my opponent.” He claims there were things that were “mathematically impossible” in the real world, and that his opponent “completely disregarded electoral law.” • He describes Brazil as being under an exceptional regime: institutions have been taken over, lawmakers are afraid to speak out (some have been stripped of their mandates for speaking), the judiciary is acting in a partisan political capacity at the highest court, and his father is being used as a “hostage” in negotiations. He cites the protection of people who should be investigated (e.g., Moraes’s wife). • Regarding Moraes’s decision, he alleges a false accusation that he was involved with a friend’s bank accounts (Santander reportedly sent an official notice on election Sunday stating that he had no connection to them). He compares this to cases such as that of Filipe Martins (allegedly unjustly imprisoned and described as a political prisoner). • The new battleground is the National Congress, especially the Federal Senate. He endorses Rogério Marinho for Senate president and urges supporters to press newly elected senators to vote for him. The goal is to build resistance to prevent or delay the “great chaos” that the current government would bring about. • He predicts that the economy will be the main source of political damage (with conditions worse than those during Dilma’s 2014–2015 administration). Brazil would be “destined to go bankrupt” whether or not the government fulfills its promises, which could lead to the president being removed from office sooner. • On a possible return to the electoral race, he says: “If necessary, I will run in another election for Brazil. And I’m not talking about 2030; I’m talking about before then.” He considers the nearly 60 million votes cast for him by “real people” an honor.