The right-wing candidate is stable after having been stabbed in the abdomen and having lost a lot of blood. A man of 40 years has confessed to being the author of the attack.
The presidential candidate of the extreme right-wing Social Liberal Party, Jair Bolsonaro, leader in the polls on voting intention for the presidential elections on October 7 in Brazil, was stabbed in the abdomen on Thursday during an electoral rally in the city of Juiz de Fora and he was hospitalized in a "very serious" state, but he is already stable.
"Jair Bolsonaro suffered an attack, a knife thrust in the region of the abdomen, but thanks to God it was only superficial and it's fine," said his son, Flavio Bolsonaro, in a message on Twitter.
The ultra-rightist deputy was stabbed when he was carried on his shoulders in the middle of a crowd in a central street of Juiz de Fora, the second largest city in the state of Minas Gerais (southeast).
Images widely disseminated on social networks show the moment when Bolsonaro, wearing a shirt with the colors of the Brazilian national team uniform, writhes in pain when being stabbed, although the author of the attack does not appear due to the amount of people surrounding the candidate.
The Military Police of Minas Gerais reported that he arrested a man identified as 40-year-old Adelio Bispo de Oliveira, whom a group was trying to lynch after accusing him of the attack and who subsequently confessed to being the perpetrator of the attack.
The ultra-rightist is one of the most controversial candidates in the current electoral dispute because he is a defender of the last military dictatorship in Brazil (1964-1985); It has generated several protests for its insistent sexist, racist and homophobic statements, and leads the opinion polls with 22% of the support for the elections next October 7.