Bolsonaro is slowly regaining support and is not out of the second round, says Eliane Cantanhêde.
"He is not an easy opponent, nor is the Centrão about to abandon ship," says the journalist. "Bolsonarism is deeply rooted in Brazil," she adds.
247 -The journalist Eliane Cantanhêde In her column in the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo, she argues that despite the high rejection rates identified in polls, Jair Bolsonaro is not out of the presidential race. According to her, "he is not an easy opponent, nor is the Centrão (center-right bloc) about to abandon ship; just like Trumpism in the US, Bolsonarism is deeply rooted in Brazil."
“This shows several things: the politicization of everything, the rudeness of certain Bolsonaro supporters, the strength of the 'myth' in the South, and that if opponents think President Jair Bolsonaro has already lost, they are mistaken,” he observes. “In the country's largest electoral college, the president's candidate for governor, Minister Tarcísio Gomes de Freitas (Infrastructure), is already off to a good start, even though he has nothing to do with São Paulo, and is replicating Rio, where the Bolsonaro family and the entire right wing unite around Governor Cláudio Castro, while the center and the left are fractured,” he emphasizes.
“There is still a long time until the polls and a lot of dirt will bubble up in the campaign, but the scenario is frightening, because a quarter of the country pretends not to know, or worse, overlooks what Bolsonaro has done and said against science, common sense, reality, the environment, culture, education, foreign policy… To wage war against masks, isolation, vaccines, even for children?! It's the end of the world, but elections are not rational, they are emotion and dogmatism,” Cantanhêde points out.
"Thus, the high rejection rate doesn't define Bolsonaro's defeat right away; he's not an easy opponent, nor is the Centrão about to abandon ship. That's what millions would like to see happen, but he has a fanatical base, marketing, fake news, falling inflation, money flowing into the veins of the poor, and ways to show strength, with police officers staging strikes and armed civilians. The kind who react to kindness by attacking strangers: 'Go eat barbecue with Lula!'" he concludes.
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