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SAO PAULO (AP) \u2014 Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro<\/a> was hospitalized Friday morning with abdominal pain while traveling in northeastern Brazil<\/a>, his political party said.<\/p>\n The pain was related to long-term effects of a stabbing<\/a> to the abdomen he suffered in September 2018, the press office of his Liberal Party said.<\/p>\n Bolsonaro has been in and out of hospitals<\/a> since the incident at a campaign event before Brazil\u2019s 2018 presidential election. The conservative leader underwent several surgeries during his presidency from 2019-2022.<\/p>\n He was admitted Friday to a hospital in Santa Cruz, a small city in the northeastern state of Rio Grande do Norte. Sen. Flavio Bolsonaro, one of his sons, said he would be transferred to a hospital in the state\u2019s capital, Natal.<\/p>\n Bolsonaro was set to start a trip across the northeastern region to promote his party’s right-wing agenda, eyeing next year’s presidential election, though he himself is barred from running. The region traditionally has been a political bastion of President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva.<\/a><\/p>\n