Bolsonaro sees three options for future: Prison, death or victory | Al Jazeera

Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, facing plummeting popularity and criticism for his unsubstantiated voting fraud claims, says he sees three alternatives for his future: prison, death or winning next year’s presidential elections.

“I have three alternatives for my future: being arrested, killed or victory,” Bolsonaro said in remarks to a meeting of evangelical leaders on Saturday.

He later added that the first option is out of the question: “No man on Earth will threaten me.”

Bolsonaro for weeks has questioned Brazil’s electronic voting system in what critics say is a Donald Trump-like campaign to sow doubt in the 2022 presidential election in order to contest the results.

He has been calling for the adoption of printed receipts, saying without evidence that electronic ballots are vulnerable to fraud – a claim that has been rejected by top Brazilian judges and other experts.

Bolsonaro trails former left-wing President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in most polls.