SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro said on Monday at an event with conservative evangelical Christians that he hopes to appoint an evangelical minister to the supreme court next year.

“We are going to have a very evangelical minister in the supreme court ,” Bolsonaro said. “More than somebody very evangelical, if God is willing, we will have a minister.”

(Reporting by Ricardo Brito; Editing by Christian Schmollinger)

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