SAO PAULO, Dec 25 – Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro publicly endorsed his son Flavio’s 2026 presidential aspirations while recovering from a successful hernia surgery in a hospital. Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes granted Bolsonaro permission to temporarily leave prison, where he is serving a 27-year sentence for his involvement in a coup plot, to undergo the surgery. Police were stationed outside his hospital room, enforcing restrictions on electronic devices. Flavio Bolsonaro, a senator at the age of 44, aims to continue his father’s conservative agenda in the upcoming election, challenging the incumbent leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.