Michel Temer asserted that he would be handed over to Brazilian justice "in all peace"

"I will introduce myself, this does not pose any problem"Told reporters outside his home in the city of San Pablo.

The regional court of the second region (TRF-2) of Rio de Janeiro decided this Wednesday by 2 votes against 1 the return to prison of Temer, who had already been arrested on March 21 by an order of trial judge Marcelo Bretas.

The former president, 78 years old and who ruled between 2016 and 2018, proast four days between the bars After being arrested on a public road in San Pablo last March, one of the TRF-2 judges granted him habeas corpus before the decision was badyzed by the collegial body.

The fear said surprised with the measure and considered that it is "totally wrong"from the legal point of view.

"I have always maintained that there was no evidence in these matters, for me it was a bad surprise, but I will be tomorrow (this Thursday) I present myself voluntarily"he added.

The former head of state, who chaired for more than a decade the party of the Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB), said that will file a writ of habeas corpus before the Superior Court of Justice, superior instance, and pointed out that she will defend her rights "until the end".

The politician was arrested on March 21st and he was transferred to the headquarters of the Federal Police of Rio de Janeiro, where he was detained for four days after the arrest warrant of the trial judge, Marcelo Bretas.

In this case, the Office of the Prosecutor accuses him of receiving bribes from various companies and of being the main leader of a criminal organization that has diverted close to 500 million dollars of public resources for 40 years.

"I come from the legal field, and you remember, the first time that there was a show, if anyone had come here and had told me that I had to introduce myself, I would have presented immediately, "he said.

Temer took office in May 2016, when the process that led to the resignation of the then president, Dilma Rousseff, with whom he was vice president, gave Jair Bolsonaro the presidential band on January 1st. .

(With information from EFE)