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BRASILIA – Faced with the defeats imposed on candidates supported by President Jair Bolsonaro in the first round of the elections, the president’s allies inside and outside the government divided between denying a failure at the polls (or at least removing him from the presidential lap) and recognize that we must change to recover the good performance of 2018. In the group of denial is the president himself, who began to defend the thesis that the municipal elections do not correspond with national politics. The allies even advised the president to carefully analyze the possible participation in the second round to avoid further setbacks. Others publicly debated what to do in the face of losses at the polls.
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In addition to a bad result in the mayoral dispute in the main cities – only Marcelo Crivella (Republicans), in Rio, and Capitão Wagner (PROS), in Fortaleza (CE), remain in the fray-, the president saw the majority of its nominees. councilor to sink. Of the 44 supported, only nine were elected. And the vote of son Carlos Bolsonaro (Republicans), at a lower level than in 2016, also counts as a setback.
The advisers who defended Bolsonaro’s participation in the campaign estimate that the scenario served as an important thermometer in shaping the 2022 presidential race, should the chief executive carry out the plan to try to win re-election. For this wing, without launching fully into the elections, Bolsonaro would have difficulty knowing the real size of his strengths and weaknesses for an upcoming dispute.
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This group also admits that the president’s participation in the elections without party affiliation imposed an urgency on him: the need for him to quickly find a legend to organize his political group. Bolsonaro joined the PSL in November last year and tries to create the Alliance for Brazil, without success. A few months ago he admitted to having entered another acronym.
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The speech of denial of defeat was present. Bolsonaro himself took to the networks Sunday night to recall that, in 2016, then-governor Geraldo Alckmin was seen as victorious, and ended up defeated two years later.
Responsible for the political articulation of the Planalto, the Prime Minister of the Government Secretariat, Luiz Eduardo Ramos, stated on his Twitter that “the left was defeated,” noting that the PT further reduced the number of mayors elected.
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The wing that defended an exit of the president from the municipal elections again asked him not to get involved in the second round. In the opinion of Planalto’s advisers, the fiasco of Patrícia Patrícia (Pode), in Recife (PE), Coronel Menezes (Patriota), in Manaus (AM), and Coronel Fernanda (Patriota), in the dispute for the Senate in Mato Grosso, they should not be linked to the president as these names were mentioned by his allies.
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The support for federal deputy Celso Russomanno (Republicans), who failed to pass to the second round in the elections for the mayor of São Paulo, was the president’s decision. However, there are criticisms of the candidate’s campaign. For a close ally of Bolsonaro, he “lacked content and firmness in ideas” of Russomanno’s marketing.
However, several allies expressed their recognition that Bolsonaro’s political field was unsuccessful on Sunday. The president’s special adviser for international affairs, Filipe Martins, one of the exponents of the “ideological wing” of the government, said on Twitter that the Brazilian conservative movement “hit its head to do the basics” while the left “renewed, assimilated the lessons of 2018 and he knew how to take advantage of the internet and the new political reality to his benefit ”.
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“Either we do the proper self-criticism or our mistakes will come at an even higher price in the future,” Martins said.
He went on to say that the defeat of candidates “supported by strong electoral cables” occurred because the election cannot be disputed in the improvisation.
Federal deputy Carla Zambelli (PSL-SP) asked questions: “What happened to the conservatives? Do we err, do we pulverize, or suffer a monumental fraud? ”.
The director of Secom’s Channel and Digital Content Management Department, Mateus Colombo Mendes, described the result as “terrible”, but also as a “necessary evil”. “Without organization, without party, without BASE, you cannot move,” he wrote.
The brother of Bolsonarista deputy Carlos Jordy (PSL-RJ), Renan Leal, who was not elected councilor in Niterói, blamed the defeat on the president. For him, Bolsonaro “lost the municipal elections, and probably the 2022 elections when he thought it was bigger than the project itself” and that “he forgot that it is on the soles of our shoes that we do politics.” The publication received a response from Carlos Bolsonaro, in defense of his father: “There, friend (Jordy’s brother), I don’t think so! When you took a photo, you went there and now that! Unfortunate!”.
In a more moderate tone, Jordy said there was a need for “self-criticism” after the defeat of the Bolsonaristas, saying there was “a lack of organization on the right.”
