There were cries of joy in progressive parts of Rio on Wednesday when the Supreme Court of Brazil ruled that former President Jair Bolsonaro had to stand for an alleged Staatsplam.
“No amnesty! No amnesty!” A delighted Lefty roared from his balcony to the sunny autumn afternoon.
About the bay in the city of Niterói, the composer Edu Krieger was so happy with the prospect of Bolsonaro that time he wrote a song -A parody of a Tom Jobim Bossa Nova classic called Waters or March-it of the fall of the “coup-lying fascist”.
“It was a sense of relief,” said Krieger, one of the many progressive Brazilians who abolished the extreme right-wing populist for his attacks on culture and human rights, about the decision of the court.
Thousands of kilometers north, deep in the Amazon, the Yanomami leader Júnior Hekurari also expressed satisfaction. ‘Never before have we been abandoned by the Brazilian state [than during Bolsonaro’s 2019-23 administration] … his words encouraged thousands of illegal miners to infiltrate our forests, causing mercury, violence and environmental destruction, “Hekurari recalled.
The Bolsonaro critics have said that they hope that this week’s statement will end his division and Hate-filled 36-year careerIn which the parachutist became the politician, an amazing transformation from eccentric backbencher to the most powerful man in the country.
“He turned his back on us – and now the world can see the consequences of his actions,” said Hekurari, who convicted Bolsonaro’s “negligence and omission” for depositing his Yanomami people in a deadly crisis of hunger and pain.
The future of Bolsonaro looks gloomy after the unanimous pronunciation. When he ends up, possibly later this year, few believe that the politician will escape the punishment because he leads a murderous conspiracy to take his left-wing successor, Luiz Inácio Lulva, the power after his election win of 2022. Those crimes can give the 72-year-old a punishment of more than 40 years.
While she voted for Bolsonaro to be placed in the dock, the Supreme Court Cármen Lúcia Antunes Rocha launched a burning attack on the kind of authoritarian takeover accused of the extreme right -wing politician of planning. “Dictatorship kills. Dictatorship lives from death – not only the death of society and of democracy, but of people made from flesh and bone that are tortured, mutilated and murdered,” she said.
Bolsonaro tried to save a challenging tone during a walking, Peevish 45 -minute statement for reporters, insistently that he was innocent in “unfounded” accusations. “I am not obsessed with power, I have a passion for Brazil,” he shouted before a joker trumpet player the press conference with the press conference with A sarcastic rendition of Chopin’s funeral march.
Maria Cristina Fernandes, a columnist of the Valor Econômico -newspaper, said she believed that Bolsonaro cut a reduced figure. “It was the speech of someone who is stunned, who has no strategy … I saw a Bolsonaro who was lost and I think [in his position] Everyone would be, “she said.
Fernandes said she thought Bolsonaro – who expected to be convicted – would try to grab two lifelines while fought for political survival.
The first concerned securing a presidential grace by helping to choose a right -wing president in next year’s elections, in which he is banned to run. Bolsonaro had hoped that his son of the congress, Eduardo, could be in his place. But Fernandes said that she believed that the judgment of the court meant that he would be forced instead to support the less radical right -wing governor of São Paulo, Tarcísio de Freitas, that a better chance of winning.
Secondly, Fernandes said, Bolsonaro would fight to ensure that a large number of right-wing senators were chosen, to use the Supreme Court of Judge Alexandre de Moraes-The man Bolsonaristas would lead to the efforts to get the efforts of such a pardon. “This is the absolute top priority of Bolsonaro,” she said.
It is far from certain Bolsonaro will achieve those goals. When the former President supporters expected Rance on Rio’s Copacabana Beach this month, the allies expected a million male crowd. About 18,000 people showed up, according to an estimate of one of the top universities of Brazil.
“For me, the protest in Copacabana was a sign that people want to turn the page around,” Fernandes said. “I really think Bolsonaro runs the risk of becoming the news from yesterday.
“I am not saying that Brazil is doomed to the right and the extreme right,” she added, but Bolsonaro looked a spent strength and the hope of the populist to organize a comeback in Donald Trump style was not good. “Voters want to look to the future.”
Not everyone is so sure. Bernardo Mello Franco, a political columnist for the newspaper O Globo, said that he also expected Bolsonaro to be guilty and imprisoned – if he did not fled abroad or first hid in a foreign embassy.
Mello Franco said he believed that the ex-president hoped that the “global extreme law Alliance”-led by Trump and Elon Musk-Hem could somehow save, even if the American president seemed to have more urgent priorities than a Septuagenarian politician had no longer power.
But was Bolsonaro really ready?
“In Brazil we can never say that someone is politically dead and buried,” replied Mello Franco. “Just look at President Lula’s case,” whose career looked when he was imprisoned in 2018, but who recovered the presidency four years later. “Sometimes people seem to be out of the game and then there is suddenly a turn.”
Krieger, the musician, expressed similar fears.
“When it comes to politics, everything is so unpredictable,” said Krieger, pointing to the rise of a new generation of social media-Savvy extreme right-wing figures. “Although it is perhaps the end of the road for a specific person, it is unfortunately not the end of the road for conspiration, coup-lurmering, fascist ways of thinking.” .
He added: “This seed was not planted in Brazil by Bolsonaro – it was planted more than 500 years ago when Brazil was invaded by Europeans, and native people began to be eradicated and slavery [took root] … these extreme right -wing ideas are still very lively. “
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