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RIO – The left switched places with the right in the Rio Chamber. At the age of 37, Carlos Bolsonaro (Republicans), the son “02” of President Jair Bolsonaro, won his sixth term as councilor of the city of Rio de Janeiro this Sunday. But it lost the status of the most voted in the city to Tarcísio Motta (PSOL), who had been in the second position in 2016. Taken as a possible vote shooter for the Republicans of Mayor Marcelo Crivella, Rogéria Bolsonaro, ex-wife of Jair Bolsonaro and mother Carlos, disappointed with just over 2,000 votes and failed to be elected.
With 100% of the votes counted, Carlos counted 71,000 votes against 106,567 in 2016, a difference of 35,567 votes. For his part, Tarcísio obtained 86,243 votes against 90,473 four years ago. Abstention in the 2020 elections explains only part of this decline. In 2016, the percentage of absences in the first shift was 24.24%. In 2020 it reached 32.79%.
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In his current term, which began in 2017, Carlos divided his time in the Rio de Janeiro legislature with the coordination of his father’s campaign for the presidency of the Republic. Carlos even graduated during the presidential campaign to work alongside his father full time.
During the campaign, Carlos Bolsonaro even published a video asking for donations for his electoral campaign and affirmed that his election “was at risk.” He justified the request because he was “avoiding as much as possible” to use the resources of the Fund for Financing Special Campaigns (FEFC) and criticized candidates who use the resource without concern.
– I am a teacher, but my work was not limited to Education. We had an important role in the discussion of the Crivella accusation, in urban planning, in the CPIs of Floods and buses – says Tarcísio.
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For him, getting ahead of Carlos Bolsonaro (Republicans) is a local reflection of the weakening of Bolsonarism in the country.
– In the Chamber, the mandate of Carlos was meager – Tarcísio claws.
O Globo has not yet spoken with Carlos Bolsonaro. In a video posted on Twitter at dawn this Monday, the councilor thanked the voters for the support and celebrated the second place among the most voted.
– Faced with all the difficulties, possible and impossible, we have seen in recent times how the media attack us, but even so, we achieved this extremely satisfactory result, which makes me very happy. Excited to continue this fight, to continue with what we defend – declared Carlos.
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In the publication, the president’s son also denied that the result of this year’s municipal elections was a defeat for his father. According to him, the PT was defeated in several capitals of the Northeast thanks to the work of the government that took resources to get the population out of “slavery.”
– Anyone who thinks the president is defeated is wrong, this narrative goes down the drain. Just look at what happened in the Northeast, where the PT lost in almost every major capital and that hasn’t happened in a long time. You can be sure that that was the job of the president and his ministers, to get the minimum for that region to get out of that slavery it lives, mainly due to the lack of water – he says.
Controversies in the networks
The councilor is actively involved in social media, including managing the father’s accounts. In the virtual world, collect controversies with allies, former family allies and the left. On the web, he attacked former members of the government, such as the former prime minister of the presidency, Gustavo Bebiano (now deceased), for complaints about orange candidacies of the PSL, the party for which his father was elected. The former chief of staff, General Santos Cruz, was also targeted by giving interviews in which he defended some kind of regulation to contain “digital militias.” Recently, in the Rio Chamber, there were fierce discussions, including verbal offensive colleagues like Tarcísio Motta (PSOL) and Leonel Brizola Neto (PSOL).
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In the Rio de Janeiro legislature, Carlos has always been discreet, presenting few proposals in the legislature. In 2018, a GLOBO poll showed that Carlos had passed only 16 bills in 18 years in office. Among the bills it approved are: banning advertising on trees and poles; cancellation of license for establishments trapped with stolen public property; determine that traffic signs with electronic sparrows are flashing yellow, from 10 pm to 6 am, in some places, to ensure the safety of drivers; and guidance to pregnant women from the public network to register the umbilical cord collection for possible use in bone marrow transplants. He ended up gaining prominence for projects that did not go ahead: the creation of Heterosexual Pride Day, which he proposed in 2011, and the Escola Sem Partido Program, in 2014.
In 2000, when he was first elected, Carlos was only 17 years old. The then federal deputy Jair Bolsonaro decided to launch him into politics due to a family disagreement. He and Rogéria Bolsonaro, with whom he was married at the time, got into a fight. And Jair decided to launch “Carluxo” against his mother, who ended up not being elected.
New and old figures
Another who is back in the Rio Chamber is Carlo Caiado (DEM). First secretary of the Rio Chamber, he is appointed among his colleagues as a potential candidate to preside over the Rio Chamber, instead of Jorge Felippe. Caiado talks and says that his dream would be to go to the Executive, if Eduardo Paes is elected:
– Several councilors always talk about it. But my wish is to be with Eduardo in the mayor’s office. It is too early to talk about it.
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The ballot box also enshrined Councilor Rosa Fernandes (PSC) as record holder for consecutive terms in the municipal legislature. She will go to the eighth trimester. Another councilor who had seven was the mayor, Jorge Felippe (DEM), but they were not consecutive. And with a different feature. For the first time in her career, Rosa stood up to the government. He broke with the mayor Marcelo Crivella for not agreeing with the decisions of his administration:
– People read on the political chessboard how I am. The problem is that this mayor does not listen to the wishes of the population. I paid a very high price for this, but there was no way to be different, I am from the North Zone and I live in my region. Voters ring my doorbell to make demands and suggestions.
Among the new faces also appears the former prime minister and blogger Gabriel Monteiro (PSD), considered a representative of the “bullet bullet” and of the right. He came in third place with 60,326 votes, leaving former mayor Cesar Maia (DEM), who was re-elected with 55,031 votes, finishing fourth.
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In the PM he has had a problematic passage since he joined the corporation in 2016, coming to be threatened with expulsion for deserving it due to the number of consecutive absences. In total, he received 16 punishments and served 33 days in detention for indiscipline, as he had less than ten years in the corporation, Gabriel had to leave the police.
Another newcomer to the Chamber is Mônica Benício (PSOL), the widow of Marielle Franco, shot to death in March 2018, along with driver Anderson Gomes. The architect campaigned for the feminist, LGBT, anti-racist, anti-capitalist and anti-fascist vote. In his social networks he preached the end of inequalities and oppression.
Marcos Braz (PL), Flamengo’s director of football and an emblematic figure in Brazilian football, is another of those who for the first time occupies a seat at the Pedro Ernesto Palace. In the election, there were two more Flamengo candidates: Fred Luz and Eduardo Bandeira, who competed for mayor.
Among the voting champions is Chico Alencar (PSOL), who returns to the Pedro Ernesto Palace. Chico, a former federal deputy, unsuccessfully tried for a Senate seat in 2018. Fifth with 49,222 votes, Chico has already served two terms as councilor, from 1989 to late 1997. He spent four years in the Legislative Assembly (1999-2002) and he held the position of federal deputy for four legislatures (2003-2019).
– The moments are different. In the early 1990s, we were in a period of policy renewal. Now we are living a conservative wave. It is important to position ourselves – said Chico.
But the composition of the House can still change. Everything will depend on whether or not the TSE accepts an appeal that challenged the candidacy of Lindbergh Farias (PT), considered one of the party’s shooters. Last Thursday, TRE contested Lindbergh’s candidacy because he was convicted of administrative irregularity during his first term as mayor of Nova Iguaçu. Lindbergh, a candidate for reelection, was accused of benefiting from a milk distribution scheme, the boxes of which bore the government’s logo. He was the ninth best classified, having obtained 24,912 votes.
A total of 1,758 candidates competed for 51 seats for the Rio councilor. Of the current bank, 50 tried to be re-elected. Only Paulo Messina (MDB) was left out of the mayor’s office. There were 34.5 candidates per seat in the municipal legislature.
Sunday closed
