Carlos Bolsonaro, one of the sons of President Jair Bolsonaro, returned to sow the controversy with a tweet in which he questions the usefulness of democracy to achieve the transformation that "Brazil wants".
"By democratic means, the transformation that Brazil wants will not happen at the pace we want ... if it happens," Carlos Bolsonaro, 36, a councilor for the Rio de Janeiro Assembly and second son, wrote Monday night. of the president.
"I only see every day the wheel revolving around its own axis and those who always dominated us continue to dominate us in different ways," he added in the message.
The comment caused a great controversy in the social network and was seen by some users as a "threat to the rule of law" in Brazil.
"@ CarlosBolsonaro, son of the president, says that there is no transformation by democratic means. Thus he affirms the dictatorial vein of the 'family' Bolsonaro," wrote Paulo Teixeira, federal deputy of the leftist Workers Party (PT).
For its part, the center-right Party of the Brazilian Social Democracy, of former President Fernando Henrique Cardoso (1995-2002), recalled that President Bolsonaro was elected "by democratic means" and affirmed that "democracy is the only possible option."
Later, the president's son responded wryly: "Now I became a dictator? The mother who bore them."
The president, a former army captain, is a strong admirer of the military dictatorship (1964-1984) and has sparked numerous controversies with relatives of victims of the lead years by publicly praising torturers.
Nicknamed "pit bull" for the protective attitude towards his father, Carlos Bolsonaro is considered the most influential of the three sons of the president who are dedicated to politics.
He had a central role in the coming to power of the president, leading his successful campaign on social networks. This Saturday he paraded next to his father about a convertible Rolls Royce during the ceremony to commemorate the independence of Brazil.
In recent months, Carlos Bolsonaro has starred in several clashes with ministers, some of whom ended up in the government, including that of the General Secretariat of the Presidency, Gustavo Bebianno, or that of the Ministry of Government, General Carlos Santos Cruz .
The controversies caused by the members of the 'Bolsonaro clan' are frequent since the electoral campaign that brought him to power.
In October of last year, Eduardo Bolsonaro, federal deputy whom the president is considering appointing Brazil's ambassador to the United States, said that to close the supreme court "a soldier and a corporal is enough."
On Monday, he posted a photo on twitter in which he appears in the hospital, with a gun at his waist, next to his father, who is recovering from an abdominal hernia operation.