In Brazil, no party holds anything close to a legislative majority. The president has to cobble together majorities on various diferent positions. This is why some have argued that the mesalon scandal - paying members of congress to vote way in exchange for being able to name its own ministers - was caused by this practice.
Bolsonaro is presiding over mass COVID deaths and the destruction of the Amazon. Lula is free and polling way ahead for next year's presidential election. But the conditions that brought the far-right to power remain in place. Sociologist Sabrina Fernandes and historian Andre Pagliarini on Brazil.
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