Jair Bolsonaro returns to Brazil after three-month stay in Florida

Jair Bolsonaro (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Former president Jair Bolsonaro has arrived back in Brazil after a three-month stay in Florida, seeking a new role on the political scene as authorities in the capital brace for the far-right populist’s return.

He left Brazil just before the end of his presidential term, breaking with tradition by declining to hand the presidential sash to his successor, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who won the October election in the narrowest finish since Brazil’s return to democracy more than three decades earlier.