Jair Bolsonaro’s lawyers have asked Supreme Federal Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes to lift restrictions preventing the former president from receiving visits from his son Flávio Bolsonaro, or, failing that, to permit one meeting described as exclusively familial.¹

The defense argues that enough time has passed without further incidents to justify ending an “exceptionally restrictive” visitation regime. It says any renewed access would remain subject to monitoring, security requirements and the other precautionary measures governing Bolsonaro’s humanitarian house arrest.¹ The specific ban on Flávio’s visits is due to expire on October 11, 2026, and the petition seeks to bring that date forward.²

The differing accounts turn on the reason for the restriction in the first place. The defense frames the case as one of family coexistence: if the broader restoration is denied, it asks for a single visit “of an exclusively family nature.”¹

The account from the left, however, recalls that Moraes imposed the restriction after Flávio used an online broadcast following a visit to read a letter in which Jair Bolsonaro called him his spokesperson in the election. Moraes concluded that the conduct represented an “obvious diversion of purpose” in exercising the right to visit, according to that report.²

Both accounts agree that social visits were later resumed and that the remaining dispute is narrowly focused on Flávio. They differ over what should carry more weight now: the defense’s claim that the circumstances no longer warrant exceptional limits, or the court’s earlier concern that a personal visit had been used for electoral communication.¹²