Bosonaro used the tiny social liberal party, or piase, as his vehicle to win office in 20 18. Has he built anything like a party machine around his presidency since? Well, he hasn't been able to to do so. Is actually one of the major defeats of bosonadoriso after he breaks with piesa. He's kind of homeless, right? And he knews pers how to build a party, and they try to do so, and it's a disaster. They can't get enoug signatures to actually a make it the home of bosonarista. So right now he's actually looking, he's looking for a party to run from.
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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