The great gesture of reconciliation remained Jair Bolsonaro in his office, guilty. Instead, he fell back into the familiar “us against them”. But can’t afford Brazil, says Thomas spleen.
“I confirm once more my promise to build a society without discrimination and without division,” said Jair Messias Bolsonaro on Tuesday at his swearing-in to 38. The President Of Brazil. But you can’t hide. The ultra-rights, Ex-military and long-term on the back benches of the house of representatives, received the end of October, about 55 percent of the vote, is not matured overnight to the state man.
Quite to the contrary. Before him, in honor of assembled Congress, foreign heads of state, and around 100,000 Fans Bolsonaro fell back into the familiar campaign mode. With the today’s day the people begin to break free from socialism, Bolsonaro. Socialists are also Communists, or Marxists, are in his world, all who do not agree with him, and he wants to stop with the help of God, of the Christian world to annihilate.
Predatory capitalism and Cronyism
Brazil, the ominous forces have governed however never. Even the left-wing workers party PT, which ruled between 2003 and 2016, not dared to come to close to the centuries-old privileges of the elites. Brazil, thanks to its mixture of predatory capitalism and Cronyism continue to be one of the most unequal countries in the world. Whether Bolsonaro has taken advantage of these social dislocations, and whether or not he wants to do as President, something about it, even after his two celebrated speeches to the Commencement of Tuesday more nebulous.
DW correspondent Thomas spleen
Bolsonaro is the first President since Brazil’s return to democracy in the mid-80s, is politically further to the right than the already extremely conservative Congress. Observers had expected, therefore, that he would moderate his discourse and in the political middle of the back. There are so far no clues. Perhaps he is back at his political Idol, Donald Trump and a confrontation with the Congress to arrive. Of concern, however, was that, obviously, many members of the swearing-in, stayed away.
It can afford to have Brazil not blockages. The Federal government, States and municipalities are on the verge of financial collapse. Here Bolsonaro must act quickly. “It’s the economy, stupid” – runs the business, runs his presidency. Or not. In spite of the holes in the budget Bolsonaro promised to entrepreneurs and workers, to relieve. How to make that work, is uncertain.
No reconciliation in sight
In addition, he informed against his political opponents. For the beginning of September on it’s attack, he made the dubious “enemy of the Fatherland, the order and freedom”. The investigators assume, only a mentally deranged individual offender; for a politically motivated act, or even behind, the men from the camp of the political opponent, there is no evidence.
But at a reconciliation with the Opposition, nothing seems to him to lie. He ended his speech with his well-known Slogan “Our Flag will never be red”, referring to the flags of the left-wing camp. Then he added a strange PostScript, the precise significance will reflect the political observers in Brasília, probably for a long time. “You will only be red if it becomes necessary for us to shed our blood to ensure that it continues to be green-yellow.”