The right wing exposes its guts.

The second round of the power struggle in Brazil has just begun.

In the first round, the impeachment coup was orchestrated by the right wing in Congress, with the support of the mainstream media and sectors of the judiciary, applauded by an upper-middle class displaying its class prejudice in the streets.

Operation Lava Jato, its preventive arrests, and the selective leaks to the media sold the image that the blame for Brazil's ills lay solely and exclusively with the PT (Workers' Party), criminals, corrupt individuals, and bad administrators.

The legal proceedings against members of the Workers' Party moved quickly, their trials and imprisonments were spectacular, and the sentences imposed on them were the longest and most unjust possible.

In the street demonstrations, hatred against the PT, Lula, and Dilma was spurting from the mouths of leaders of the Free Brazil Movement (which emerged in support of Aécio Neves' campaign); and the Come to the Streets Movement (according to the...). The Economist, "founded to promote free market solutions in the country"); and Students for Liberty, a non-profit organization closely linked to Koch Industries, the second largest private company in the U.S.

Koch Industries' interest in Brazil – whose main activities are linked to oil and gas exploration, pipelines, refining and production of derived chemicals and fertilizers – is not difficult to imagine: Petrobras and the pre-salt reserves, of course.

When people ask me if everything happening in Brazil is bad, I say: no, not everything. I say no because now everything we always said – that it was a coup by beasts to save their own skins – nobody can deny anymore.

I say no because the second round has just begun, and now, more and more of the truth will come to light each day.

Temer and his cronies' mask has fallen. Their rhetoric of being a kind and honest savior of the nation, fighting corruption in others, no longer works.

Corrupt, he has to return the Presidency of the Republic and go to jail, now. This is the only way to stop him from continuing to act as always in his inseparable partnership with Eduardo Cunha, even after being removed from office, still dictating rules in Congress and the Executive branch.

In Brazil and around the world, the inner workings of the right wing have been exposed.

On Thursday, June 16th, The Wall Street Journal reported that former senator Sérgio Machado accused Michel Temer of receiving R$ 1,5 million in bribes during Gabriel Chalita's 2012 mayoral campaign in São Paulo, and that the bribes came along with campaign financing provided by the construction company Queiroz Galvão.

The newspapers Estadão, Folha, O Globo, and Valor ran front-page headlines linking Temer and more than 20 politicians from various parties to Sérgio Machado's bribery scheme. Valor specifically mentioned Temer and Aécio Neves in its headline.

Folha states in an editorial that "Sérgio Machado's narrative indicates how much Michel Temer's government can weaken in the face of Lava Jato. Not even politicians who are now allies and have long been distanced from the federal machine, such as Senator Aécio Neves (PSDB-MG), have escaped unscathed."

The revelations have been a bombshell for Michel Temer's reputation. He, Aécio Neves, Sarney, Jucá, Renan, and the group that forms the core of the interim government are the subject of numerous mentions and accusations.

In this second round, the Brazilian population must demand a change in the dynamics of Lava Jato. We can no longer accept that, faced with such hefty sums of money, the Supreme Court remains slow in dealing with the politicians on the list, while Moro dedicates attention to paddle boats, friends' country houses, and apartments that Lula did not buy.  

The population – including those who took to the streets to say "We are Cunha" and to support Temer, and who are now certainly ashamed and regretful – must demand that the Supreme Court act swiftly to judge and imprison the entire gang that usurped power, mired in numerous accusations, including those predating Lava Jato.

Brazilian citizens must be wondering why they don't arrest Cunha, Aécio, Renan, Jucá, and Temer himself, whose villainous mask now perfectly suits the character?  

Temer was always an imposter; he seized power without a single vote, sold the image of a national conciliator, pointing to Dilma's unpopularity as one of the important factors in her downfall. And him? What is his popularity like now?

His image, which was never good, has now worsened. Two recent polls conducted by CUT/Vox Populi and CNT/MDA show Temer with an 11% approval rating, the same percentage as Dilma.

Both institutes found that society believes corruption will be the same or worse under Temer, that the economy will worsen, and that impeachment will solve nothing. Pessimism is widespread.

Now more than ever, it's time for us to be in the streets pressuring the Supreme Court so that accusations become legal proceedings and proceedings become trials.

Temer should relinquish power, just as his ministers involved in allegations did, and a plebiscite should be called immediately so that Brazilians can express their opinion on calling elections for a National Constituent Assembly to primarily address political reform in the country.