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Bolsonaro was advised by lawyers to leave the country before January 1st.

Bolsonaro's lawyers said the best course of action would be to leave the country before January 1st, when he loses his privileged legal status.

Jair Bolsonaro (Photo: Reuters/Ueslei Marcelino)

247 - Jair Bolsonaro has sought advice from close lawyers in recent days, asking for assessments to determine if he could be arrested.

The information comes from the columnist of G1According to Natuza Nery, the lawyers consulted by Bolsonaro said that the best course of action would be to leave the country before January 1st, when he leaves office and therefore loses his privileged legal status.

"The assessments were along the following lines: without parliamentary immunity, any first-instance judge could order Bolsonaro's arrest, and even if he spent only a few hours in a police station, the embarrassment would have already occurred," the journalist highlighted.

These lawyers pointed out that Michel Temer was arrested by Marcelo Bretas, a judge of the first instance, after leaving the Presidential Palace.

"Government sources confirm that this hypothesis has indeed haunted the president since the defeat," he added.

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