He survived a few weeks ago, an assassination attempt, on Sunday, he is considered the favorite for the presidency. For what is the supposed “Trump of Brazil,“ is actually, you can only imagine.
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Ex-military polarized in elections in Brazil
Twice daily, the Albert Einstein hospital said in São Paulo in the last few weeks about the state of health of the candidate Jair Messias Bolsonaro. At the beginning of September and was Confused at a campaign event by an apparently mentally with a knife attacked and dangerous to life had been violated. Although Bolsonaro can’t lie down since his infamous public appearances, in which he pronounced polemical attacks against the political opponents: in Brazil, Left, and Ex-President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of the left workers ‘ party – Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) – rode. However, his time of suffering has made him obviously more popular. Since the attack, he rose in the polls from just over 20 to over 30 percent. His victory in the presidential elections is becoming increasingly likely.
For his followers, Bolsonaro is simply “o mito”, “mythical Hero” to prevent Brazil’s Flag could once be red, and your home, a second Cuba or Venezuela. Tends to be more on Gestures as on words-setting Bolsonaro illustrates this by the fact that he is taking on the dolls, the Ex-President Lula represent da Silva. Or he spreads his fingers a Revolver. Peng peng, of the left arch-enemy is shot down.
For his followers he is a “mythical Hero”…
For a long time the political Establishment has dismissed the 63-year-old Ex-paratrooper as a Clown. Since the beginning of the 1990s, he sits in Parliament, a typical backbencher. Constructive speeches or legislative initiatives, he never fell, but by the ugly verbal attacks. A PT Deputy, he called out, she was “so ugly that they don’t deserve it, raped”. Several times he had to answer before the court, which has hampered him, however. Also homosexual, he attacked like rather a dead than have a gay son, he said once. He is not a good speaker, but he can be evil to inherit it.
To vote for the impeachment of the then President, Dilma Rousseff (PT), who was tortured during the dictatorship (1964-85) brutal, he dedicated in April of 2016, the torturer Carlos Alberto Brilhante Ustra. The tortured during the rule of the military, around 40 members of the opposition to death and is the great model for the reserve military Bolsonaro. Its Fans celebrate the dictatorship – what would be Murdered a few Hundred dead in opposition against the current state of Chaos, with annually more than 60,000, you ask.
Popular in spite of contradictions
To blame for the current plight and the rampant corruption of Lula and the PT had. Long the call was, according to Lula’s arrest Bolsonaros zugkräftigstes Argument. Since April, Lula is now due to corruption and money laundering behind bars, on 1. September, under the Supreme electoral court told him the candidacy. Now Lula’s replacement, Fernando Haddad, former Minister of education, and once mayor of São Paulo, for the PT. However, although Haddad inherits most of Lula’s votes, it is still five to ten percentage points behind Bolsonaro. The it is successful, the other right-wing candidates, such as Geraldo Alckmin (PSDB), and Henrique Meirelles (MDB) crowd of the voters way to pilfer.
… his critics accuse him of racism, homophobia and plain stupidity.
Concrete ideas for Brazil’s gigantic problems has to offer Bolsonaro. He had no idea of economy, it may please the liberal Economist Paulo Guedes questions. The so-called “Chicago-Boy” to be his economy Minister. The public schools will Bolsonaro the military, the skyrocketing violence, the arming of the “good citizens”, while police officers for every killed bandit rewards the opposite. In addition, he likes the values of the traditional family – although he himself is married for the third Time. The corrupt political Establishment he wants to clear out – while his three sons, like him, are professional politicians. Together it has built up thanks to the deputies, a salary.
Know from Comic books
Such contradictions do not bother his Fans. This is reminiscent of his idol, US President, Donald Trump. But Bolsonaro is not a political Alpha males as the “Self-made billionaire” Trump or Russia’s Vladimir Putin. He is asked about his racist, homophobic, or misogynistic Remarks, back row. All just a “joke”, that’s a misunderstanding, says he is innocent. From the hospital bed he complained to the last, crying, but never to have any harm to anybody done. Whether the tears were a calculated choice mode?
Many of his critics hold Bolsonaro for “stupid”, his Knowledge he had folders out of the Comic. The slave trade had once been operated by the Portuguese, but to the Africans themselves, he said recently. Even his Deputy, the reserve General Antonio Hamilton Martins Mourão (64), loves Such: as early as 2017, he had openly threatened with a coup by the military. “We have inherited the inertia of indigenous culture, while the sleight of hand comes from the Africans,” said Mourão. While people are protesting rights groups, cheer Bolsonaros followers in Social media. The campaign against the “political correctness” and the criticism of the Establishment is the ultimate accolade for him.
The Most Important Opponent Bolsonaros: Fernando Haddad
Real chances on the Power?
Brazilians do not like Radicals, therefore, could not win Bolsonaro, tried experts to calm down for a long time. Without campaign funds and airtime for the TV Spots he was put to the major parties, promised you. However, thanks to the assassination, certain Bolsonaro, the news of the last few weeks. You have to see if he was purified, and conciliatory after the assassination, noticed now political observers. But even out of the hospital Bolsonaro showed his sense of mission. Anything other than victory is unthinkable, a defeat inflict to him only through electoral fraud. In this case, the military would be ready, he threatened.
And from the economy the approval came already to Paulo Guedes’ plans for the privatization and streamlining of the state. You should Bolsonaro, therefore, not underestimate, or hope, that in the worst case, the Congress and a radical President Bolsonaro would slow down For there, too, his ideas like. The representatives of the Agro-Business, the gun lobby and the ultra-religious forces he can count. B as in “Boi” (cow), such as “Bala” (bullet) and “Bíblia” (Bible) – the mighty “BBB group” was instrumental in the fall of Dilma rousseff’s. Against the Rule is almost impossible. With them but even one could realize backbenchers such as Bolsonaro his ideas.