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The municipal elections this Sunday in Brazil were marked by several poor results from candidates supported by President Jair Bolsonaro, for example in the city of São Paulo, where the candidate supported by the president, journalist Celso Russomanno, linked to the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (IURD), will not contest a second round, which will be between the current mayor Bruno Covas, of the Brazilian Social Democratic Party, and Guilherme Boulos, of the Socialism and Freedom Party (PSOL) – a good part of the municipalities will have a Second round. November 29.
Although the local factor is very important in these elections, the results are considered to provide clues about national politics. The newspaper OR Balloon He summarized it in the title: “Freio na antipolítica, Bolsonaro’s failure.” Along the same lines, analyst Creomar de Souza, from the Dharma Political Risk and Strategy group, told Reuters: “The pandemic has slowed the anti-political trend and the rejection of traditional parties for being corrupt,” he declared. “Voters realized that the politicians elected by Bolsonaro in 2018 are flawed and want public services to improve.”
OR Sao Paulo state It stands out that Bolsonaro campaigned for 59 candidates, but only nine were elected. During the vote count, Bolsonaro even deleted a social media post in which he had called on various candidates to vote. Subsequently, the President devalued the poor results of the candidates he supported, preferring to underline the “historic defeat” of the left, guaranteeing that “the conservative wave came in 2018 to stay.”
The management of the pandemic was a determining factor in the choice of Brazilians. In Belo Horizonte, for example, Mayor Alexandre Kalil enacted quarantine and physical distance measures to limit the transmission of the virus that causes covid-19 and that were criticized by Bolsonaro, who devalued the pandemic. Kalil has now been re-elected with 63% of the vote.
In Rio de Janeiro, the former mayor of the Democrats Eduardo Paes (DEM) was leading the race and will face the current incumbent, the evangelical bishop Marcelo Crivella, in two weeks. Crivella had the support of Bolsonaro and his passage to the second round is one of the few good news for the president, who has an important political territory in Rio de Janeiro.
In Salvador de Bahia, Bruno Reis, from DEM, was elected; the party also won races in Curitiba and Florianópolis in the first round.
Traditional parties like the DEM and PSDB did well, exposing the vulnerability that Bolsonaro had not left: the Social Liberal Party (PSL).
His project of creating a party from scratch, Aliança pelo Brasil, was a failure and the only hope is that it will be ready in time for 2022 ”.It was filmed on the pIt is ”, considered Carlos Félix de Melo, professor of the Department of Political Science of the Federal University of Minas Gerais, interviewed before the vote by the PUBLIC.
The failure of the “bolsonaristas” in the first electoral test since Bolsonaro was in the Planalto Palace was evident with the result of the president’s son, Carlos, who, although he managed to be reelected as a councilor in Rio de Janeiro, lost his status most voted. by Tarcísio Motta, from PSOL.
On Twitter, the former Minister of Justice of the Bolsonaro Government and judge of the anti-corruption operation Jet wash Sergio Moro made his analysis of the election, underlining the “failure” of the candidates supported by the President and considering PSOL as the most relevant left party.
The Workers’ Party, of former president Lula da Silva, had some bad results, such as a historically low vote in São Paulo (8.7%), given the good result of the PSOL (20%).
The election was also marked by a technical problem with a computer in the Superior Electoral Court, which caused a delay in the counting of votes, although the court guarantees that no data has been lost. The incident is already being used by Bolsonaro’s allies to launch theories to try to discredit the electoral system.
The fact that there was an attempt to bring down the system via a computer attack carried out from Portugal (but also with hackers from New Zealand and Brazil) was said to give force to these theories, although the attack failed.
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