Brazilian President Jaire Bolsonaro on Saturday called on his "freedom-loving" citizens to be indifferent to the "despicable" Lula, a former leftist president who was released from prison on Friday night.

In his first comment on the release of Lula, who condemned the current Brazilian government immediately after his release from prison, Bolsonaro said on Twitter that Lula was "temporarily free, but convicted," referring to Lula's prison sentence for a corruption case.