Carlos Bolsonaro may be a candidate for the Senate by Santa Catarina; understand
Councilman for 24 years in Rio de Janeiro, Carlos Bolsonaro (PL), the son “02” of former President Jair Bolsonaro, plans for the first time to leave the state of Bolsonarism to apply for a position outside of Rio. The plan of the clan leader of the West Zone of Rio is that Carlos will be a candidate for the Senate by Santa Catarina, where he beat President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and maintains one of the allied governors.
Bolsonaro wants to enjoy the electoral recall in Santa Catarina, where he obtained 69.27% of the valid votes in the second round in the 2022 elections, compared to 30.73% of Lula, to enlist Carlos’ candidacy. Most voted councilman in the state capital in the municipal election of 2024, with 130,480 votes, Carlos will not have room for the dispute of the two vacancies to the Senate in Rio.
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“If the business doesn’t work very well up there, we passed a meal to here and do ‘the south is our country’, right?” He said, laughing, Jorginho Mello
Three PL names seek party nomination for both vacancies in the Senate race. While Flávio Bolsonaro is expected to be a candidate for reelection, Governor Claudio Castro and Senator Carlos Portinho are expected to compete for the party’s place in the elections.
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In Santa Catarina, the scenario is more open. In 2026, the state will have two vacancies for the house. Allies of the former president claim that he came in with contact with federal deputy Julia Zanatta (PL), who intended to launch the Senate by the party, to warn her that Carlos should be a candidate for the state.
The sewing of the PL plate in Santa Catarina also passes through Governor Jorginho Mello (PL). The head of the state executive should appoint one of the party names, while Bolsonaro will have the prerogative to choose the second name.
This Sunday, 15, Carlos Bolsonaro used social networks to comment on the repercussion of the likely Senate candidacy. According to Carlos, “almost by call”, he considers the possibility of disputing the elections by another state.
“Today, almost by calling, I consider the possibility of meeting the call to run for another position in RJ or in a state where it can be more useful to the project of freeing Brazil, without ever changing my essence. I face this mission with the same humility and the luggage of those who have been a quarter of century fighting for what is right,” he wrote at X.
And he added: “If this change will be realized, I will take with me the experience achieved in the Rio Chamber and learned by watching my father to work through the region that will receive me -and throughout Brazil -certain that values do not change with the zip code, but gain strength when they find new fronts to flourish.”
Carlos will not be the first member of the Bolsonaro family to join Santa Catarina politics. The younger brother, Jair Renan Bolsonaro, was the most voted elected councilman in Balneário Camboriú, on the coast of Santa Catarina. He applied for office using the name of a “Jair Bolsonaro” urn.
