Pasal is torn between electoral pursuits and base building, movement building. Some of the party's most prominent figures are tired of being a radical left party. A new law means that parties need to demonstrate viability in elections. This has caused some re shuffling among prominent left figures like flavgen.
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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