Ex Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro
has not asked for Italian citizenship, Foreign Minister Antonio
Tajani said Wednesday refuting media reports, but some of his
relatives have.
"The ex-president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, has not requested
Italian citizenship, but I believe other relatives have asked
for it, I don't know how the case has ended," Tajani told Radio
Capital.
The family of Bolsonaro's paternal grandfather come from near
Padua, giving him a right to file for Italian citizenship.
The far-right former president, 67, is currently in a Florida
hospital with abdominal pains after supporters stormed
government and judicial headquarters in Brasilia at the weekend.
Tajani said "we are monitoring the situation in Brazil, we have
followed with great concern and condemned what has happened,
defending democracy and institutions, and we hope these violent
phenomena are over.
"People should protest in a democratic fashion, not by
assaulting institutional buildings".
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