Counting the days on the wall
"We can expect anything in these two hundred and seventy days or so until the first round of elections," writes Ricardo Mezavila.
The Bolsonaro government worked hard to produce unemployment, inflation, poverty, and hunger. It took advantage of the pandemic to give vent to its instincts of cruelty and deliberately contributed to the premature deaths of hundreds of thousands of Brazilians.
His three years in office were pathetic and focused on handing over our wealth, weakening industries and commerce, withdrawing social rights, politicizing and militarizing the justice system and the police, and abandoning incentives for culture, science, and technology.
They say that, since the beginning of his government, Bolsonaro hasn't stopped campaigning, that he hasn't stepped down from the campaign trail. I believe that this unfortunate citizen acts like that old low-ranking congressman, a collector of corporate bribes, a militia member, and a kingpin of embezzlement schemes.
In his final year, after burying Brazil in the eyes of the world and enduring every unimaginable humiliation for a head of state, Bolsonaro will bet everything on the 'Adélio case'.
Adélio was the actor who played the bumbling assassin in the incident that occurred in Juiz de Fora during the 2018 election campaign. Without a scratch, after attempting to stab the candidate surrounded by security guards, he lives incommunicado in an uncertain prison, being prepared to return at the end of the season to, once again, win over Aunt Célia.
Even with the nearly impossible task of reversing a 60% disapproval rating in nine months, we cannot relax in the face of the administrative machine that finances fake news, which has a hard core comprising around 20% of the electorate, and which maintains a network of conspiratorial journalists, like Fernando Gabeira, who are constantly making pronouncements in the coup-supporting media.
2021 ended with the president completely indifferent to the floods in Bahia. 2022 began with the president literally unable to care. We can expect anything in these two hundred and seventy days leading up to the first round of elections.
* This is an opinion article, the responsibility of the author, and does not reflect the opinion of Brasil 247.