Brazil: Jair Bolsonaro, a former president, declared on Saturday that he would be coming back to Brazil "in the coming weeks."
Bolsonaro made his remark about going home for the first time in public during an event at an evangelical church in Florida.
Since arriving in Orlando, Florida, on December 31, the day before his leftist rival Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva took office as Brazil's current president, the far-right politician has been living in the United States.
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The right-wing group Yes Brazil USA organized Saturday's event, which was held entirely in Portuguese for a Brazilian audience of Bolsonaro supporters living abroad. All through the event, Bolsonaro received cheers.
When Bolsonaro might return to Brazil, where he is the focus of numerous inquiries into potential wrongdoing, has been the subject of speculation in recent weeks.
His initial diplomatic visa allowed him to enter the country for one month; it expired on January 31. His wife, a group of presidential advisers, and they all left Florida last month with him.
Bolsonaro's attorneys recently disclosed to Brazilian media that they had applied for a tourist visa to extend his stay in the United States.
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One of Bolsonaro's sons, Sen. Flavio Bolsonaro, told Brazilian reporters that he didn't know when his father would return amid the rumors regarding his plans. "He might never come back; it could be tomorrow or in six months. I'm not sure. He's unwinding," the son reported.
Bolsonaro no longer benefits from the special legal protection that requires any trial to take place at the Supreme Court for the first time in his more than three decades of political service, first as a lawmaker and then as president.
Four inquiries into Bolsonaro have been sent to the trial court this past week after being in the Supreme Court for a week.
One of the questions being looked into is whether Bolsonaro played any part in inciting the riot on January 8 when his supporters stormed into government buildings in the capital city of Brasilia and demanded that his election loss to Lula be annulled.
The large gathering of Bolsonaro supporters, who traveled to the capital from all over Brazil, is also the subject of an investigation into who organized and funded it.
Who instigated the crimes and who provided the funding for people to travel to Brasilia is one of the investigations being conducted by the Brazilian justice system.
