Setback for Bolsonaro after poor results in Brazil local elections

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Setback for Bolsonaro after poor results in Brazil local elections

President’s candidates suffer heavy defeats amid resurgence of mainstream parties

Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro
Mon 16 Nov 2020 12.32 GMT

Jair Bolsonaro – already smarting from Donald Trump’s defeat – has suffered a further setback after candidates he had championed performed dismally in municipal elections.

Sunday’s vote provided the first electoral opportunity to gauge the health of the Brazilian president’s anti-establishment movement since the populist’s shock election victory in 2018.

The results, which included painful defeats for Bolsonarista candidates in key cities and the resurgence of politicians from mainstream parties, suggest it is an ailing force.

“The far-right wave that carried Bolsonaro to the presidency turned into a ripple in 2020,” claimed the political commentator Josias de Souza in his dissection of the vote.

Bolsonaro, who has yet to publicly recognise Joe Biden’s victory over his top international ally, had endorsed rightwing candidates in six state capitals – four of whom suffered heavy defeats.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/16/setback-for-bolsonaro-after-poor-results-in-brazil-local-elections

[Mystery sage]

1. Not from there but good.

For he's done to rainforest his evil men need to be removed.

[Judi Lynn]

2. He was so proud to be the "Tropical Trump." May they both get run out of town and never return. n/t