The eternal husband

Senate replacement. Demóstenes Torres leaves, Wilder Pedro de Morais enters. The false moralist leaves, and in comes... well, Wilder himself jokes about being a cuckold. And that's his biggest credential upon arriving at the Senate: he was betrayed by his wife with Carlinhos Cachoeira.

Let's face it, if people are losing their mandates for being friends with Cachoeira, any reason for enmity with the racketeer has become an advantage. But not even the loss of his wife to the key figure in Operation Monte Carlo was able to shield the new senator. On the contrary.

Wilder will have to explain his relationship with the illegal gambling operator, even his colleagues from the DEM party are demanding. Beyond the realization that it's not easy to oppose the government these days, only Dostoevsky can explain it. Could Wilder be an eternal husband?

"The main indication of such a husband is a certain ornament. He cannot help but be horned, just as the sun cannot help but shine; and he not only ignores the fact: according to the very laws of nature, he must ignore it," philosophizes Dostoevsky's Vieltchâninov in Boris Schnaiderman's translation.

Taking this theory into account, Senator Wilder would be going a step further than Pavel Pavlovich Trusotsky, Dostoevsky's eternal husband. He knows about betrayal and is not disturbed, to the point of prioritizing his political career over what, in Dostoevsky's time, was called honor.

And what does this have to do with you and me? Aside from anthropological and literary curiosity, nothing. But Wilder and 18 other alternate senators lent themselves to this kind of personal exposure when they arrived in the Senate without first passing the public scrutiny of the ballot box.

Having emerged mid-story and lacking any political credentials, Wilder, known for his business dealings in Goiás, is destined to be Andressa Mendonça's eternal husband in the Senate. Until the loss of his mandate separates them.

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