Destroyed Brazil - Consequences of a divided country | Part 1
The right won the elections
After 8 years of the center-left and 14 years of the left in power, the right won the elections with the candidate Jair Bolsonaro, who had already been a federal deputy for 28 years, acting together with the center deputies, sometimes voting with the left , sometimes voting with the right, as it was more convenient.
However, he won the appreciation and vote of the right, by addressing issues such as public safety, anti-corruption flags (even though he was corrupt) and attacking social guidelines such as gender ideology.
He used speeches such as: "You have to end it there" (referring to the corruption scandals of the Workers' Party government), "a good bandit is a dead bandit" (due to the high crime rates that occur in Brazil, even higher than than many countries at war); and speeches with anti-lgbt guidelines.
Guidelines of a right-wing government + global pandemic
That the right knows how to deal better with the economy of a country is a fact, unlike the left, which knows how to deal with social and human issues better than the right, each with their own specialties. But even with Bolsonaro improving the country's economy, while making agreements for his children not to be arrested for corruption, a pandemic reached the world, and consequently Brazil.
While Bolsonaro was not adopting a president's posture, making jokes of "tiozão" (tiozão, it's in free translation that 50-year-old family member who makes unfunny jokes at the family barbecue), the left was trying to rebuild itself, and do what what she knows best how to do, assassinate reputations, so there were attacks and attacks on Bolsonaro, whether he was right or wrong, she wanted to undermine his popularity so that he would not win the 2022 elections.
And Bolsonaro gave ammunition for this. He imitated breathless patients live; he made a joke saying that whoever took the vaccine would become an alligator; when asked about the deaths he said he wasn't a gravedigger to talk about that subject; among many other speeches that ended up alienating a certain electorate from him. However, by stating that he was not against the vaccine, he put a 100-year confidentiality on his vaccination card, so people would not know whether or not he took the vaccine.
Every time Bolsonaro opened his mouth, his popularity dropped and his bargaining power as president became more expensive. Deputies did not want to support someone like him, and with that, no project that he was in favor of had the strength to be approved, which showed over the years that the only agenda that the right had strength, economic reforms, would not be approved by pure lack of political strategy from a president who doesn't know how to dialogue and only make jokes that offend people.
The closest election in history
For the first time in Brazilian history, an incumbent president is unable to be re-elected.
Lula that he could not run in the elections in 2018 because he was in prison, this time he was free and was the biggest competitor on the left, while Bolsonaro represented all the strength of the right.
Lula was released due to a decision of the Supreme Court that changed its decision regarding prisons, which before it was enough for the accused to be convicted in the second instance for him to be arrested, now it is necessary that it be in transit judged, that is, that all instances have been traveled. And the ironic thing is that the casting vote that released Lula from jail was by a Supreme Court minister appointed by Bolsonaro, Kassio Nunes.
With Lula's victory, both in the first round and in the second round, the paths that the country will take from 2023 will be different, the public machine will once again be swollen, with several friends of the president being funded by it, economic reforms They will pass and a Lula government will now have an enemy that it did not have when it was president between 2003 and 2010, social networks.
Before a charge made only by the media that could be paid and transformed into a press office, now it turns into a charge on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook (the social network most used by Bolsonaro voters); and even on web3, why not?
However, a factor that has not yet been mentioned in the text, which will be the subject of part 3, comes into play, the Supreme Court and Justice Alexandre de Moraes, judged by the left as the savior and holder of democracy and order, and by the right as a caricature of the infamous Judge Joseph Dredd.