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Patience with President Bolsonaro is wearing thin. For the first time, several right-wing parties support the demand for his dismissal. They believe the president and vice president knew the oxygen was running out in the Amazon, but they still chose not to intervene. As a result, several COVID-19 patients died of suffocation in hospitals in Manaus, a city of 2.2 million inhabitants.
Since the pandemic broke out, Bolsonaro has done everything possible to mitigate the mortality of the virus. He has compared COVID-19 to “a little runny nose” and invested millions of tax dollars in making the anti-malaria drug chloroquine, which has no proven effect against the viral disease. He has urged the population to “face the virus like a man” and has refused to wear mouth guards and keep their distance. One of his latest initiatives was to question the vaccine and claim that whoever takes it can “become an alligator.”
Brazilian legal experts quote Article 85 of the Brazilian Constitution, which commits the president of the country to the protection of the political, individual and social rights of citizens. That article also establishes that it is the job of a president to protect the health of citizens.
The opposition believes that Bolsonaro has violated that article and therefore intends to take it before the Supreme Court. During Bolsonaro’s two years in power, the opposition has tried several times to initiate a supreme court trial against him without success. This time, however, there is more evidence that their demands are gaining ground in Congress.
One of the most important Bolsonaro’s raid is not having bought the vaccine in time for the population. While most other democracies compete for the most effective vaccine, the Brazilian president has stuck his head in the sand and done everything possible to discredit attempts by the state of São Paulo itself to develop a vaccine. Your campaign against vaccination may be the main reason for your dismissal.
A two-thirds majority is required in Congress and the Speaker begins the Supreme Court process. Until now, President Rodrigo Maia of the right-wing Democratic Party has refused to go ahead with a request for a national court, despite being one of Bolsonaro’s main critics.
However, there is one thing that can change the situation. On February 1, Congress will elect a new president. If the opposition candidate, Baleia Rossi, wins, he could well initiate a trial in the Supreme Court.
Lately For example, spontaneous pot protests have intensified across Brazil, and Bolsonaro’s opponents have gathered on balconies at one point to show their disgust by touching the saucepans. Last week, a façade of a skyscraper in São Paulo was projected by an image of Bolsonaro with the text “How many more will have to die before the Supreme Court?” Several protests where people dressed as clowns have taken place in São Paulo, Brazil’s largest city, and Bolsonaro is ridiculed on social media.
To date, 210,000 people have died in Brazil, one thousandth of the population, in covid-19. Only the United States has more deaths in absolute numbers. Former US President Donald Trump and Bolsonaro have faced the pandemic with lies and have tried to mitigate the mortality of the virus. Trump has resigned, but the trial against him continues. The question is whether Bolsonaro will face the same fate.
