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Election in Brazil: Jair Bolsonaro, the captain of excesses who became president

2022-09-30T15:13:18.608Z


PORTRAIT – On the eve of the first round of the election in which he is standing, the former army captain is slipping in the polls. A large part of the electorate criticizes him for his lack of empathy during the health crisis.


In Rio de Janeiro

In 2018, during the last Brazilian presidential election, Jair Messias Bolsonaro is a man of his time.

The marginal far-right deputy, who, in a context of rampant corruption and a feeling of "all rotten", becomes the man for the job.

The political outsider becomes president.

Four years later, on the eve of the first round of the election in which he is standing, the former army captain is slipping in the polls, a dozen points behind his opponent, who could even win in the first round on Sunday.

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This has gone through the disaster of its management of the Covid-19 crisis, which killed nearly 700,000 people, the deterioration of the economic situation and a slow recovery whose effects the poorest are not yet feeling.

The general fed up with political elites and violence has given way to concern about the return of poverty, precariousness and, above all, hunger.

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Source: lefigaro

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