However, Alexandre de Moraes argued that, since Bolsonaro was placed at the Federal Police headquarters, where he is serving his sentence, he has received constant medical care and there has been no emergency situation since then.
He added that the medical tests presented by the defense to justify the transfer to the hospital are not recent and that the last one was carried out three months ago, without the immediate need for an operation being recommended.
Based on this, he ordered the Federal Police to carry out a new medical examination, in order to be able to respond to the defense’s request.
In addition to hernias, Bolsonaro, 70 years old, suffers from sporadic bouts of hiccups, incipient skin cancer and also the consequences of previous surgeries in the abdominal region, due to a stab wound he suffered in 2018, when he was in the middle of the campaign for the elections that brought him to power that same year.
The former president, sentenced to 27 years in prison, has been at Police headquarters since the end of November, when he was detained after trying to free himself, with the help of a welder, of the electronic ankle bracelet that had previously been imposed on him by the Supreme Court.
Since then, the defense and the political leader’s own family have insisted judicially and publicly that he be granted humanitarian house arrest due to his repeated health problems.