Jared Bolsonaro, who has already been smarting since Donald Trump’s defeat, has been further shocked by the disappointing performance of the candidates who championed him in the municipal elections.
Sunday’s vote provides the first electoral opportunity to take into account the health of the anti-establishment movement of Brazil’s president, who won a shocking election in 2018.
Consequences, including painful defeat Bolsonarista The resurgence of candidates from major cities and politicians from mainstream parties suggests it is a disease.
“The far-right wave of bringing Bolsonaro to the presidency turned into a wave in 2020,” political critic Josias de Souza claimed in a dissection of his vote.
Bolsonaro, who has so far publicly acknowledged Biden’s victory over his top international ally, backed rights officials in six state capitals – four of whom suffered heavy defeats.
In the Amazon city of Manaus, Bolsonaro’s pick, a four-decade-old friend named Alfredo Menezes, came in fifth. In Recife, Patricia Domingos – who Bolsonaro promised would liberate Brazil’s northeast from “communism” – was fourth.
In Belo Horizonte, Brazil’s third city, Bolsonaro’s candidate, a 23-year-old conservative activist known as Bruno Angler, was assassinated by the incumbent Alexandre Calil, who received more than 63% of the vote.
But Souza claimed that “of all the waterlooms imposed on Bolsonaro on Sunday, the most devastating was in Sao Paulo”.
There, in Brazil’s largest and most economically powerful city, the choice of Bolsonaro was hampered by the rising left star Celso Russomanno, center-right, Bruno Kovas and Guilherme Bulos. Kovas and Boulos will face off in the second round on November 29th.
“We have defeated Bolsonaro – we have defeated his project of hatred, backwardness and lies that tried to get roots in the city of S સાo Paulo,” Blues celebrated.
The governor of Sao Paulo, Joe Doria, claimed: “Democracy has won and Bolsonaro has lost.”
Rio’s undisputed evangelical mayor, Marcelo Crivela, reached the second round, but has a way to lose. One newspaper reported Sunday’s results as “this Bolsonarista Crash ”.
Elsewhere, there were humiliating defeats or hiccups for other candidates affiliated with Bolsonaro.
The president’s cousin, Marcos Bolsonaro, managed only 1,340 votes – 4% of the total – in his bid to become mayor of the city of Djibouti.
The president’s ex-wife, Rogeria Bolsonaro, failed to become a Rio councilor after receiving just 2,033 votes.
Bolsonaro’s son, Carlos, won a second term in Rio’s city hall, but received 36,000 fewer votes than in the last election and lost the title of Rio’s most-voted councilor as a Socialist.
In the southern city of Brussels will be a councilor who tried to increase his chances by running under the moniker “Donald Trump Bolsonaro”, which received only 107 votes – 0.7% of the total – in 128th place.
Bolsonaro tried to change the story, claiming that his chances in the results were good for re-election in 2022 and that there was a “historic defeat” on the left. But analysts say the opposite is true: the new pay generation of left-wing politicians has done well.
Boulos, 38, Muela D’Villa, 39, a strong Communist Party candidate in Porto Lગ્રીgre, Rec, a year old, a Workers Party candidate in Recife, a 36-year-old, and Brazilian Socialist Party, Joઓo Campos, a strong performer. Candidate in the same city.
Monica Benzio, 34, the widow of slain leftist councilor Mariel Franco, was elected to Rio’s City Hall for Socialism and the Liberty Party.
Rio Broadsheet o Globo reports, “The left side was rejuvenated on Sunday.
The election comes at a time of testing for Bolsonaro. Trump’s defeat has robbed the Democrats of their key source of legitimacy, corruption investigators are allegedly shutting down their two political sons, and polls show that many have slipped into major cities.
Meanwhile, a coronavirus epidemic has killed more than 165,000 Brazilians as Bolosonaro claims to have committed catastrophic malpractice. Last week, with signs of Brazil erupting, the Brazilian president dismissed the “second wave” warning as “jiber-jagger”.
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