Far-right firebrand Jair Bolsonaro anointed his eldest son, a senator, as his successor after being sentenced to 27 years in prison for plotting a coup following his loss to leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in Brazil's 2022 election.At a convention in Sao Paulo, the Liberal Party (PL) will officially name Flavio Bolsonaro, 45, as its candidate to face off against Lula, who is seeking re-election at the age of 80.Wearing Brazilian national team jerseys, which have become a symbol of the Bolsonaro movement, supporters beat drums and waved flags inside a warehouse next to Sao Paulo's Pacaembu Stadium."We would have liked our candidate to be Jair Bolsonaro, but today Flavio is the best choice," Fernando Moeno, a 50-year-old retired military police officer attending the convention, told AFP.Flavio is promising change: he wants to free Brazil of crime, inflation, high taxes and Lula, who is seeking a fourth term in office."We are on a plane without a pilot," he said last week.The senator was neck-and-neck with Lula in the polls until he was hit by a series of scandals: ties to a disgraced banker, a family feud, and new tariffs imposed by ally US President Donald Trump.Pollster Datafolha published a survey Friday showing that in a runoff election Lula would win 48 percent of votes to Flavio's 43 percent.A wave of scandals