One of Bolsonaro's children questioned the utility …

Carlos Bolsonaro, one of President Jair Bolsonaro's sons, came back to sow controversy with a tweet in which he questions the usefulness of democracy to achieve the transformation that "Brazil wants" .

"By democratic means, the transformation desired by Brazil will not happen at the speed we want … if it happens," wrote Monday evening Carlos Bolsonaro, Councilor of the Rio de Janeiro Assembly , 36 years old. Of the president. "I see only every day that the wheel revolves around its own axis and those who have always dominated us continue to dominate us in different ways," he added.

The comment provoked great controversy within the social network and was perceived by some users as a "threat to the rule of law" in Brazil. "@CarlosBolsonaro, son of the president, says that there is no transformation by democratic means, he baderts the dictatorial thread of the Bolsonaro famiglia," wrote Paulo Teixeira leftist worker (PT).

For its part, the center-right party of Brazilian Social Democracy, former President Fernando Henrique Cardoso (1995-2002), recalled that President Bolsonaro had been elected "by democratic means" and had affirmed that "democracy was the only option possible". Later, the president's son ironically replied, "Now I became a dictator, the mother who carried them."

The president of Brazil, former captain of the army, is a fervent admirer of the military dictatorship (1964-1984) and has sparked much controversy with relatives of victims of the lead years, publicly praising the torturers . Last week, he had already declared himself in favor of the Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.

Nicknamed "pit bull" for the protective attitude towards his father, Carlos Bolsonaro is considered the most influential of the three sons of the president who devote themselves to politics. He played a central role in the president's coming to power, leading a successful campaign on social networks. On Saturday, he paraded alongside his father about a Rolls Royce convertible at the ceremony commemorating the independence of Brazil.

Over the past few months, Carlos Bolsonaro has played a leading role in several clashes with ministers, some of them in government, including that of the Presidency's General Secretariat, Gustavo Bebianno, or that of the Ministry of Government, General Carlos Santos. Cruz. .

Controversy over members of the "Bolsonaro clan" has been frequent since the election campaign that brought him to power. In October, Eduardo Bolsonaro, a federal deputy whom the president is considering appointing Brazil's ambbadador to the United States, said closing the Supreme Court "is enough, a soldier and a corporal." On Monday, he published a photo on Twitter in which he appears at the hospital, a gun around the waist, next to his father, who is recovering from an operation at the abdominal hernia.