RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s son, Eduardo, apparently has assumed leadership of their political party in Congress’ lower house. It reflects a bout of turbulence within Bolsonaro’s Social Liberal Party that has included a police search of the party president’s home and a leaked recording of the party’s lower house chief criticizing Bolsonaro. A revolt last week aimed at replacing the congressional leader with Bolsonaro’s son fell short of the required number of lawmaker signatures. A party spokesperson declined to comment Monday. It’s also unclear whether Bolsonaro still intends to nominate Eduardo to be Brazil’s ambassador to the United States.

Source: thestar October 21, 2019 16:52 UTC