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Tabata Amaral on Brazil’s Future

The Good Fight

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Why Did Bolsonaro Survive the Second Round?

I think there are many factors that are working right now. There are these big junk of the population that doesn't feel democracy matters or works for them. So I think Bolsonaro was an answer not only to PT, the Labour Party and the good and the bad things that they did in power. But it was more an answer to the whole system. Some decades ago, someone like me who comes from a poor background would not be here in Congress. And I think those changes are scary to some people because Brazil did not do well in terms of the economy.

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