Bolsonaro says the proposal for his son to be the new ambassador to the United States "This is not nepotism"

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Friday that the proposal he had made for his son Eduardo to be the South American giant's new ambbadador to the US "is not nepotism", claiming that he is well prepared for this job.

"Some people talk about nepotism, but this is the Supreme Court's responsibility, so it's not nepotism, I would never do it," said the leader of the right in a live stream on Facebook.

Bolsonaro downplayed the critics – "I do not worry" about them – although he said he would wait for "the right moment" to decide who he would choose for. embbady in Washington.

However, he defended his son's skills for the job. "Eduardo speaks English and Spanish and has traveled the world," he said, noting that "he enjoys the friendship of the children of US President Donald Trump," according to the Brazilian newspaper O Globo.

Eduardo Bolsonaro himself recalled that the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Chamber of Deputies is currently president. "I have experience in the world (…) I am not the son of a president who is born of nothing," he said.

Bolsonaro launched this idea Thursday, while stressing that he did not want to decide the political future of his son, but that he should give up the seat occupied by Rio de Janeiro to the lower house of Congress to be chief of mission in Washington. "The decision is yours," he says.

The post has been vacant since last April, although Bolsonaro has told his son at the very moment of his 35 years the minimum age to be appointed ambbadador if the candidate is not a first or second grade official from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. but it has "a recognized merit and has rendered relevant services to the country".

Bolsonaro acknowledged that his presidential campaign was inspired by Trump's campaign, which also promoted his family to positions of high responsibility, such as his daughter Ivanka and her husband, Jared Kushner. Bolsonaro's eldest son, Flavio, is a senator, while Carlos, another son, is a city councilor in Rio de Janeiro.