by Quantum Bird for the Saker blog
Federal elections have just taken place in Brazil and the result – despite the reluctance and insecurity of the “Left” – was expected: Lula was elected president for the third time. Lula defeated Bolsonaro by a margin of approximately 1%, in a universe of almost 100 million useful votes.
The profound discredit accumulated domestically and internationally by Bolsonaro, who performed a chaotic mandate, reducing Brazil to a geopolitical dwarf, and marked by crimes, corruption, loss of control over the economy, privatization of strategic resources and a myriad of incredibly bizarre events would suggest, according to the simplest logic, a victory for Lula by a landslide, still in the first round.
[Sidebar: Opinion polls never indicated that this would happen, but research institutes are not at all reliable in Brazil, so let’s put aside the pseudo-information coming from these polls.]
The “Left” was not able to impose on Bolsonaro, and his mythical “Bolsonarism” – imbecilism would be a more appropriate term – a clear and definitive defeat. Here I examine some of the factors in the overall conjuncture and the prospects for the exercise of the presidency by Lula.
Euphoric militancy and woke: the Sixth Brazilian Column
Jair Bolsonaro was projected during the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff as a proxy for Olavo de Carvalho – a Brazilian far-right ideologue and CIA asset and collaborator, now dead – together with high-ranking military rebels, led by General Villas Bôas. He ended up elected in 2018 as a result of the collapse of the native right wing and fifth-column strategy, that offered Geraldo Alckmin, then in the center-right PSDB – he is now in the PSB and is the elected vice-president of Lula (sic) – as a candidate for president.
The fifth-column surfed the wave of anti-PT (Workers Party) fomented for almost 20 years by some of the right wing/fifth-column sectors, but was defeated by something even more visceral: pure, diffuse and moronic hate speech, catalyzed by Bolsonaro.
Alckmin did not make it to the second round in 2018, and his proponents automatically supported Bolsonaro against Fernando Haddad from PT. Lula was then illegally imprisoned, on the orders of Sérgio Moro, one of the leaders of the infamous Lava-Jato (“Car Wash”) operation. Moro afterwards was one of Bolsonaro’s ministers and has been elected Senator for his state, Paraná.
The “Left”, which tolerated the coup against Dilma Rousseff and failed to prevent Lula’s arrest, was never able to understand and fight Bolsonarism. In fact, the woke strategists of Haddad’s campaign preferred to disconnect from the reality of the majority of workers, and to eschew other very concrete tactical factors, such as the deep capillarity of Bolsonarism in social networks, and the evangelical churches and forces of order enforcement of the state, to adhere to the virtual signaling and ridiculing (using idiotic memes) as a means to oppose Jair Bolsonaro.
The “signal virtues” were extracted, as always, from wokeism and identity directives that only touch a small sector of the urban middle class, which, on the other hand, is mostly reactionary and ideologically slave-holding. Slogans like “Love will win over Hate” say very little to a population of workers living in a situation of permanent vulnerability and exposed to the cognitive assault of social networks and overwhelming urban violence.
The last four years of Brazil under Jair Bolsonaro have seen the deepening and consolidation of wokeism and identity politics as the dominant ideological attitudes among “Left” militants.
This militancy massively adhered to “Ele Não” (“Not Him!”), “Fora Bolsonaro” (“Out with Bolsonaro”) and tirelessly denounced the government as fascist and opposed to wokeist civilization directives, reacting to political click baits with memes, repeatedly virtue signaling and canceling dissident voices.
All this while ignoring the dismantling of Brazil’s economic and industrial infrastructure. For example, massive protests have been organized over the years during and around the LGBT Pride Parades, but few have lifted a finger to defend Eletrobras or Petrobras from privatization. During the pandemic, this “Left” joined and legitimized the erosion of human rights attacked during the establishment of lockdowns and widely supported the derailment of the national health structure for the manufacture of vaccines, favoring Big Pharma multinationals. Finally, the same “Left”, which denounced Bolsonaro as a fascist for four years, sided with the Collective West and the Nazi Regime in Kiev, when the Russian Special Military Operation (SMO) was launched to defend the population of Donbass in the former Ukraine.
All this contributed to form a picture of profound disconnect with reality and cognitive dissonance that produced anomie in the population and demobilized the entities and representative cadres of the real Left, historically attached to labor and a sovereignist agenda, paving the way for the formation of broad alliances with the right-wing, articulated in order to signal the proper woke virtues to the masses of workers and unemployed that took over the streets of the country, but without any real detail about what really matters, that is, the economic agenda and the recovery of resources liquidated by Bolsonaro.
Lula’s Vice-President himself is an organic cadre of the native fifth-column, and his choice went ahead despite the opinion of the most critical and committed militancy. Wokes, on the other hand, parrot ad nauseam empty slogans like “guarantee of governability”, “he (Alckmin) has changed and seeks redemption” and other nonsense.
Renegade institutions
The loss of control over institutions began still in Lula’s first term (2000-2004). He lost control of ABIN – the Brazilian Intelligence Agency – through sheer ineptitude. Since the beginning, the main promoter of the erosion of the institutional order is the Supreme Court (STF), which started to act as a political party in opposition to the left-wing government, in collusion with the native mainstream media and conspiring with the fifth-columnist right-wing political parties and transnational interests.
In the following years, the reactionary rebellion spread out across lower sectors of the Judiciary and the Public Ministry – see Operation Car Wash – and the Federal Police bodies (judicial and highway); federal police officers routinely posted videos on social media training pistol shooting at targets painted with the face of President Dilma Rousseff, without suffering punishment other than a reprimand.
The institutional mess soon spread to civil society, to the lower circles of the Judiciary and contaminated the state and municipal police bodies. Boycotts promoted by truck drivers and supported by the institutions that should be repressing them, judicially and criminally, have become common place. The renegade institutions of the Federative Republic, which now also included the high command of the Armed Forces, tolerated and even encouraged, behind the scenes, every type of action that could undermine the left-wing government and threw the country into the abyss of an institutional crisis.
However, the Pandora’s box of institutional anarchy that was opened to overthrow Dilma Rousseff’s government and imprison Lula could no longer be closed. And those who opened it lost control over the angry tempers they unleashed. Bolsonaro had become their catalyst and representative. As I write this article, truck drivers are blocking roads – with the support of federal and state highway patrol officers – protesting the election results. Acts of vandalism and economic boycott are intensifying in the states where Bolsonaro won. The continuation of this situation will inevitably require the use of the Armed Forces to restore law and order. But this is problematic, as the Armed Forces are mostly occupied by rebel commanders and Bolsonarists, and such an action would be widely interpreted by the half of the population that elected Lula as a coup d’etat, which would inevitably deepen the institutional chaos.
The great geopolitical game
The domestic scenario of institutional upheaval operating since 2008, combined with the inept and chaotic Dilma Rousseff’s foreign policy, as well as Bolsonaro’s clumsy alignment of Brazil with Trump’s US, reduced the country to an irrelevant member of the institutions that Brazil itself played a leading role in and helped create, such as the G20 and the BRICS.
The absence of a coherent and nationalist foreign policy has turned Brazil into a playground for Western economic powers and China, which have acquired national strategic patrimony at paltry values. The national economy was additionally financialized, leading to a deep and ongoing deindustrialization. All this taking place concomitantly with a historical level of precariousness of salaried work, which has turned Brazilian cities into veritable war zones for drug traffickers, and has reactivated networks of prostitution and international trafficking of human beings.
Does Lula risk becoming just another talking head?
In his speech, given shortly after the election results were announced, Lula made, as usual, excellent use of rhetoric. Especially when compared to the (non)interventions of his bizarre opponent. If we leave aside the euphoria that infected the woke militants of the “Left”, who experienced everything as a sort of out-of-season carnival, and analyze what was effectively signaled, we are forced to admit that the prospects quite are bleak.
Lula mentioned the need to urgently restore trade contacts with the EU and the US (sic), spoke superficially about the restoration of the economy, cited the BRICS just en passant and said nothing about the recovery of strategic state-owned companies that were liquidated by the satanic duo Jair Bolsonaro and Paulo Guedes (his Finance Minister). Irrelevant themes, part of the woke/WEF inventory, such as “green energy” and global warming, deserved ample space in the speech, while nothing was actually signalized to the Global South.
As important as it was to remove Bolsonaro from the country’s presidency, the truth is that Lula’s victory was not, and cannot, be read in any measure as a victory for the Left, nor for the progressive and sovereignist sectors of the country.
It’s all about consolidating a center-right coalition to get back on track the heavily deregulated economy and reestablish a certain institutional normality in the country, without however changing the rules of the game. Lula’s role in this coalition may well be limited to bringing votes and communicating with the people. A kind of Neoliberalism with a Human Face.
Indeed, some evidence of this arrangement is already available. Geraldo Alckmin and Aloísio Mercadante – who is a known fifth-columnist and right-wing asset inside the PT and does not enjoy Lula’s confidence – are leading the government transition team.
Bolsonaro may have lost the election, but he won more votes than ever, and he already has his troop of rabid lunatics occupying the streets in several locations – holding national flags and calling for military intervention, their regular trademark – and sabotaging the country’s food and fuel distribution logistics network. Bolsonaro endorsed such activities in a previous statement, then days after, he asked for moderation and avoiding blocking roads.
At the same time, what transpires behind the scenes about the formation of the new government does not inspire anything positive. For example, Simone Tebet – strongly linked to predatory agribusiness in the Mato Grosso do Sul state – conditioned her support for Lula in the second round on her appointment to the Ministry of Education. So, putting all together, we are forced to contemplate the possibility that Lula’s victory in the 2022 elections represents a mere tactical advance in a Pyrrhic War or, what seems even more likely, represents a strategic defeat for the historic labor-oriented Left, which has been replaced by wokes with their green agenda and identity politics. The Left may well end up without any representation in the new administration.
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Version in Portuguese published here: https://sakerlatam.org/vitoria-pirrica-ou-derrota-estrategica
I am not optimistic on the future of Brazil. Both sides, lula, bolsonaro are incredibly corrupt. Lula is more pro china brics. Bolsonaro is pro trump, strongman type. I doubt either can be considered pro american with biden in office.
I expect the confrontation between them in send Brazil into failed state status like Mexico or south africa. Security services will not back lula and his “weak” on crime policy and the underclass will not support bolsonaro’s shoot on sight policies.
Brazil has become even more unmanageable.
The most cringe is seeing Brazil as one of the few countries in the world voting against Cuba in the UN votation.
Really cringe
I agree with you, the problem of South America is that is totally taking by leftism, rather than socialism
I have some hopes in Argentina , though. They have experience all the dark sides of the economical liberalism so they are less likely to fall for it I think
Bostanaro is not only the most corrupt politician in the world, but also a sadistic and depraved sociopath.
As for Lula you are wrong. One thing that cannot be denied is that he is honest. Decades of investigations (mostly illegal fishing operations) have found nothing. And during his tenure, state corruption dropped by 75%.
lots of rants about “far right” this and “far right” that. Several claims regarding various nefarious connections of persons/national agencies with no citations and an underlying theme of semi -TDS from the author.
Purpose of the post? who knows . A rambling diatribe with a pathetic, naive conclusion.
Hello AleaJactaEst.
A diatribe is defined as a “a forceful and bitter verbal attack against someone or something.” You very much seem to be projecting the poor quality of your own rhetoric onto the author (a very Alinskyist thing to do), who did not once use the term that you even put into quotations,”far right”, even once, let alone as any part of a “rant”. That was a very illogical and fallacious thing to do, as was labeling the conclusion ‘patheric’ and ‘naive’.
https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/strawman
https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/appeal-to-emotion
https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/ad-hominem
https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/personal-incredulity
Likely this article triggered you as it did not align with your firmly engrained cognitive biases. When we allow our cognitive biases to control us we allow our minds to become enslaved to them. Furthermore, there are many people of various factions out there ceaselessly manipulating and “molding” the cognitive biases of the people endeavoring to reduce them to unawares puppet mindslaves for their causes.
When you are not willing to objectively consider information that defies your cognitive biases it’s a good time to consider whether you yourself have been reduced to such a mindslave.
Cheers.
In the fourth paragraph the author wrote, “Olavo de Carvalho – a Brazilian far-right ideologue.” Perhaps your cognitive biases affected your reading comprehension.
I agree totally. A post like this is unbecoming The Saker’s site. Bolsonaro captured essentially 50% of the voting public-, despite the strange things on election night that were reminsicent of the U.S. presidential one in 2020, and received clear majorities in the large industrial states of Brazil that contribute most of its wealth. There were many inaccuracies in this article, especially as regards Bolsonaro’s foreign policy tilt (he wisely started allying with BRICS and Russia and China) and regarding domestic issues. In fact, crime is way down and the economy is now sailing along at nearly 3% with low inflation–very admirable numbers as compared to Western Europe and the U.S. Bolsonaro is a strong leader who stood up to Big Pharma (e.g., Pfizer) when it threatened Brazil’s sovereignty with its dangerous vaccines. He can be criticized on the environment, but the fact that the NY Times supported his opponent raises his stature in my mind. Lula had a good run in his two terms as president, but he benefited tremendously from high commodity prices back then. One has to question why someone who served two terms already and is 77 and obviously not as mentally or physically fit as he once was would try to selfishly make a comeback at the expense of new faces in the Worker’s Party–not to mention tarnish his legacy. Even if the election stands, Lula will face incredibly strong headwinds–total opposition control of both houses of the Brazilian legislature and a burgeoning global recession–and may very well come to regret his greatest wish came true.
Basically the message of the article is that Brazil is screwed. I think that might be true with this election. Not only is the split there as strong as in the US between the red and blue. But it’s even framed the same way,between “fascism or wokeism”. Neither of these labels foretell a good future for either country. Can Lula return Brazil to a sovereign BRICS friendly future (?),or is he too old,and compromised by the “woke-liberal” ideology of the West? That will determine Brazil’s future. I guess we’ll see over the coming months.But according to the article things aren’t looking good for Brazil.
Their public does have a blind faith and trust which has been known in the past to be easily taken advantage of, and I don’t foresee this situation, or their situation, any differently.
I just wanted to give more context to my above comment For instance, Ethiopia was one of the most stable countries in Africa and was/is a very important strategic partner for China in Africa. As Brian Bereletic points out, the US cabal are already waging war on China, trying to undermine and disrupt BRICS, the BRI, SCO etc and targeting partners and important infrastructure hubs. US intelligence and security agencies have been busy funding terrorists, polarizing and destabilizing Ethopia in order to weaken the state, create chaos and make it ungovernable and thus unviable as a partner for China. So it’s gone from one of the most stable states in the region to being on the verge of collapse. It looks like the same/similar thing is happening to Brazil for perhaps the same reasons.
The Ethiopian people however see through this and are now actively advocating deescalation. It might be compared to how the Iranian populace see through the color revolution, psyops and terrorism now being waged in Iran.
We all want something usually peace and security. Brazil has been in political chaos as long as I can remember. They truly need leadership but I see none for now.
While the analysis on internal forces in Brazil is correct – the terminology “Sixth Column” for our native New Left is very adequate and interesting – I disagree with the alarmist tone of the article.
Many people, both on the left and on the right, are far less extreme than social media and quick 1 minute videos portray. Many so-labeled “pro-Bolsonaro” protesters do not like him, they simply think the national flag should be respected. And many on the left do not subscribe to the ideas of cosmopolitan new left media.
We are lacking the power of Catholic social doctrine, as potential unifying force. By the way, the Vatican achieved what it wanted: Brazilian society became overall more conservative (which means putting pressure on the new left) while at the same time a “leftist” presidency indicates Latin American (or maybe pan-American, considering Biden’s policies) integration, which is positive in the long run for the Vatican.
We will see how far can the Vatican help us or be against us. The scenario is a bit worrysome but not explosive/chaotic. Although foreign/domestic intelligence cyber work may try to spin things that way.
There is no question about it, Lula’s “victory” represents a strategic defeat for the labor oriented left. So I don’t see the necessity for this article.
On a primal level, liberals have always made sick. Liberal’s view of Lula’s “victory” makes me nauseous.
Marx said “The oppressed are allowed every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to repress them.
Lula, when in office, lowered pensions and froze wages……….So there’s that.
Brazil will do very well thank you, Lula has the backing of Vicky Nudelman. No ordinary Ukrainian cookies for Brazilians, they’ll get hashish-brownies.
In May, Victoria Nuland visited Brazil and held conferences in which she advised Brazilians to trust their electoral system.
Wait a minute, why are you advising us to trust the system? What do you know that we don’t? Mme “Nuland” pumped up Brazil’s suspicion level to deaf-con seven.
So that means the next false flag against Russia will be to nuke Rio?
Lula as a kind of Obama, to summarize
(a civilized face with great slogans, fronting the ongoing play of new-Liberal forces)
People with property to lose get jittery when they hear words like leftist, socialism, or Marxism, no matter how much Democratic they put in front of them.
I know almost nothing about Brazilian politics. It all sounds chaotic and desperate with anarchy in core institutions. One thing I did notice is a parallel to the US.. the woke left has replaced a traditional labor/class/economic focused left. That adds to the chaos and is a terrible sign. Rainbow flags aren’t going to feed, clothe and house people.
Anton observed:
Marx said “The oppressed are allowed every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to repress them.”
It’s as though Marx could see into the future with today’s American society:
There’s about 15% of the population that’s intricately tied to the US Financial Hegemon. But most think of only one thing: “Profit for me, none for thee.”
Then there’s the incredibly stupid 35%-40% of the population that still believes in the Republican vs. Democrat Matrix.
Lastly, there’s a growing population, hindered with immense amounts of Debt, who don’t buy into that “Matrix” and see it as a total joke. They no longer vote. They’re merely trying to survive. Against all odds.
You got me perfectly with the last one.
I don’t know much about Brazilian Politics.
What I do know is that Victoria Nuland flew down to Brazil to make sure Lula was installed.
US State Department and CIA were heavily involved to make sure Lula was in and Bolsanoro was out.
I heard Pepe claim that the so-called right-wing was very racist toward this article.
Not sure how being suspicious of a Victoria Nuland pick for President makes me or anyone else racist?
Can someone explain to me how Pepe became such a supporter of Victoria Nuland and State Department Candidates?
I’m sure Bolsonaro is corrupt, they all are, but what I do know is that the people destroying the world like Nuland did everything possible to keep him out of office.
And I’m sorry that makes me a bigot racist homophobe as Marxists like to label anyone who questions their ideas.
Obviously biased article. That’s okay.
Here’s one biased in favor of the other side.
And there are two sides…
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/matt-tyrmand-shows-massive-crowds-brazil-gather-support-bolsonaro-military-police-join-support/
My understanding is that if Bolsonaro truly does have sufficient support from the military that in the Brazilian constitution the military can be tasked with conducting a full audit of the election. Since he didn’t yet concede presumably this option is being considered.
Because of course the constitution is one thing, but reality is often another. Trump, for example, couldn’t use the National Guard against the BLM riots because the high brass refused. And he couldn’t use various procedures after the election because Courts and even his own VP wouldn’t play along. So there is de jure and de facto in all things.
Including this Brazilian election wherein Bolsonaro’s party won convincingly in all sectors except the Presidential ticket itself.
Personally, I think western-style democracies are past their use-by date but there isn’t enough of a sense of shared values at this point to come together behind anything new or better. No, we are just going to have to endure economic collapse followed by an oligarch-led ‘reset’ whose only blessing may be that the pretense of democracy and rule of law won’t need to be maintained any more.
Brazil’s GDP is set to grow 2.7 percent in 2022, inflation rate is expected to be 5.7 percent, with Pix, Brazil boasts the most sophisticated and free payment system in the world, 5G with Huawei systems, Covid-19 completelly eradicated, thousands and thousands of kilometers of brand new roads completed, not to mention Auxilio Brasil, social assistance programm far more reaching and paying 3 times more than Lula’s Bolsa Familia.
Come on, how bad is that?
No matter what the MSM has continuously trumpeted against Bolsonaro, the South, Southwest and Centerwest (by far the biggest, richest and most productive part of the country) have given the incumbent president a huge victory.
The MSM claim Bolsonaro has severely damaged the Amazon forest, wich is just false, General Mourao and General Braga Neto, the president’s closest political individual partner, are both Jungle officers who not only care for the jungle as love it.
Like other commenters, I know nothing about Brazil’s politics. I do know that Joe Biden’s director of the CIA went to Brazil back in May to threaten Bolsonaro that he had better accept the results of the election. Weird how the CIA director knew Bolsonaro would lose six months ago. Presumably, if the election cheating by the Far Left and their Globalist masters had failed, the CIA would have run their usual “color revolution” and installed Lula anyway.
Too many people are still stuck using outmoded terminology. The battle is not between socialists and capitalists or left and right. The battle is between Globalists and Nationalists. The Globalists want a one world government where they control everyone and everything. The Nationalists do not want their country controlled by a small, unaccountable group of so called elites. The West (USA, EU, Aus, NZ, Canada) is now run by the Globalists. Nationalist leaders such as Xi, Putin, Trump and Bolsonaro stood in the way of the Globalists creating their New World Order. The Globalists have now gotten rid of Trump and Bolsonaro and are currently fighting a war to get rid of Putin. If the Globalists defeat Putin and Xi then there will be nothing standing in their way of creating a global dictatorship.
I am humored, however more likely on account of my fatigue and sheer scope of words, as I regard all sides of this and countless others clown shows with Extreme Prejudice.
* rolling my eyes * Another one.
Neither candidate was good for Brasil, period. But, this is what was offered to the public. The complicated, meaningless crap offered here and in Pepe´s article are way to complicated and have nothing to do with reality, from my perspective of actually living among the population of Brasilians. It is just one more machine translation of something spelling Brasil with a ´z´.
The issues which lead to why Bolsonaro lost and Lula won are much simpler and direct than anything I am reading now. But, the voting is done and the country is moving on. A few extremists will linger and those guys have about zero popular support. It won´t be pretty down here and that doesn´t matter. Brasil will go on, with the guiding principle of Comte as their anchor. It is up to the rest of the world to get over it.
My take, I wish well to all.
Yes, no coincidence here that there are so many familiar markers of the accelerated systemic co-option and derailment of the left, it’s disappearance And though very specific, local qualities mark Brazil’s descent into chaos and seemingly inevitably fascism, this too is all too familiar.
It stinks of empire and their control of media and civil society through calculated psyops to produce polarization. While eliminating or at least undermining support and platforms for rational actors, and collective self interest.
Again we see new associations made destroying the meaning of earlier movements. Like those days of French and later but recently Dutch farmers against Neo liberalism and inhumane eco fascist policies hiding behind a ‘green’ agenda, and their blokkades of national infrastructure – ( not to forget the yellow vests) . And of course the truckers in Canada fighting destructive and deeply inhumane lockdowns. And now bizarrely we see Brazilian truckers supporting a CIA backed far right ‘junta’. In a blatant appropriation of grassroots tactics. Looks the same but is not the same at all.
But now this appropriation has happened in Brazil expect the copption of the same grassroots tactics to take place else where, or to see this attempted.
Failed states utterly unstable and impossibly weak seems to be the desired result. So that plunder through mass privatization and financialization – ie sell offs, dismantling industry etc and the proliferation of debt can continue to take place unchecked.
But all of that is incredibly short term and short sighted. Lula does seem to be merely a band aid to maintain some semblance of order so the looting can continue undisturbed for a little longer. But no way out.
What will truly be the result of all this destruction of value – commonly held and understood values and common and concrete national wealth? Does it lead in the end, after a period of unfathomable suffering and near total collapse, to renaissance, as in the case of Russia and China? Or will it be something else entirely…. ? A horrific tabula rasa for new forms of social ‘order’. Will Brazil ever be able to recover? Can anything prevent the plunder?
Realmente gostaria de comentar/debater sobre as opiniões contidas no referido artigo.
Concordo realmente com pouco, ou, quase nada do que foi dito. Mas, ao ler os comentários, confesso que fiquei desestimulado.
Entretanto seria importante saber a identidade do autor, que se utiliza de pseudônimo, para melhor avaliar seu ponto de vista.
O Principal objetivo dessa eleição era Barrar o Avanço Da Extrema Direita, O que vem pela frente é Outra História/Batalha.
Grato,
Toni.
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I would really like to comment/debate about the opinions contained in that article.
I really agree with little, or, almost nothing that has been said. But when reading the comments, I confess that I was discouraged.
However, it would be important to know the author’s identity, which uses pseudonym, to better evaluate his point of view.
The main purpose of this election was to stop the advance of the far right, what comes ahead is another story/battle.
Grateful,
Toni.
Victory or Defeat is a relevant question.
How stable will Brazil be if half the population see the election of Lula being stolen ?
And given as I understand it the Bolsanaro forces won control of both houses of the legislature how much power will Lula have ?
Bolsonaro supporters also own / control most of Brazil’s wealth from large to small business owners and workers. And in key industries.
The election result is recipe for chaos.
Perhaps thats what the foreign forces who organized this result want ?
In Lula’s Presidency, he essentially had no domestic policy beyond the Bolsa Familia. Everyone waiting for what came next but that was it. Meanwhile PT appointees bellying up to the trough. Of course people stopping believing them.
If someone calls Lula a corrupted man, please show the evidence, since neither the Federal Police nor the evil Car Wash operation and its marginals of justice found a single penny or irregular property in his name. Brasil suffered an economic, social, diplomatic and environmental chaos since the coup against President Dilma in August 2016.
The world can be sure that from January 1st, 2023 on, a new, progressive, respectful, responsible country will emerge. Since the victory of Lula, this man has already been invited to important events like the COP27 in Egypt, for example, where he will speak about the new treatment that our country will give to Amazon and other forest inside Brasil. This says a lot for the future. Bolsonaro will leave the presidency with a hole of BRL 400 BILLIONS to be managed by the new president. We will work hard to bring this country again and much better than 2013/214 when we were the 6th economic power, not like today, the 13th….and falling.