Bolsonaro's cancer

Bolsonarism has become a metastasizing and difficult-to-cure cancer in Parliament. What seemed possible to eradicate through voting remains alive thanks to the far right, mainly represented by the Liberal Party. The dismissal of the case against Eduardo Bolsonaro in the Ethics Committee, for example, was yet another mockery of the population, and we hope it can be reversed in the Chamber's plenary session or in the courts. On the other hand, without illusions, we must treat this cancer with more intense "vote therapy" next year, the only prophylactic measure that works.

We cannot forget that the face of the new Bolsonarism is being cemented in the figure of the governor of São Paulo. Tarcísio de Freitas is not ambiguous, as some heralds of Faria Lima proclaim, but rather a legitimate and complete representative of the extreme right in Brazil. Whether or not he will be a candidate for the federal government now is merely a momentary detail, dependent more on his ability to defeat Lula than on the blessing of the Bolsonaros and their cronies.

Let us also remember that, when the first deaths from methanol-contaminated beverages occurred in São Paulo, most likely the result of yet another action by the PCC (Primeiro Comando da Capital, a Brazilian criminal organization), the governor went to Brasília to ask for a blessing from the convicted former president Jair Bolsonaro, posing for an iconic photo that illustrates the political abyss he has reached, dragging the people of São Paulo down with him.

Thus, the surrealism that is part of the Brazilian far right is unparalleled. While serious political groups are organizing for the upcoming elections, the need for a blessing from the coup-plotting and convicted former president Jair Bolsonaro hangs in the air within the far right. This attitude imitates the caricatured story of Inês de Castro, who, even after death, was made to kiss the hand and was crowned as such.