Brazil's Bolsonaro may need new surgery after being hospitalized

13/4/2025 6:49

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro may undergo a new surgery, which would be his fifth since being stabbed while campaigning in 2018, after feeling strong abdominal pain during an event with supporters in northeastern Brazil, he posted on X on Saturday.



Bolsonaro was hospitalized on Friday in the state of Rio Grande do Norte, forcing him to break off a regional tour aimed at drumming up political support. In his post, the former president said it was still unclear if he would be transferred to do the surgery in a hospital in Brasilia, where he lives, or Sao Paulo.



His doctor Antonio Macedo confirmed to Reuters that tests the medical team ran confirmed that Bolsonaro would need a new surgery, adding that it was up to the former president's family which hospital he would go to. A medical report issued on Saturday morning stated that the president was stable and had slept through the night.