'Get out Bolsonaro!' say ex-supporters of far-right President
By Gabriel Stargardter
January 25, 2021 — 1.08pm
Rio de Janeiro: Meggy Fernandes voted for Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil’s 2018 presidential election, attracted by the far-right former army captain’s promise to shake up a hidebound political establishment mired in endless corruption scandals.
But after watching him jettison his anti-corruption pledges, strike pacts with the politicians he vowed to shun, and, most importantly, botch Brazil’s coronavirus response, Fernandes, 66, now says she was wrong to place her faith in the man some call the Trump of the Tropics.
“I’m so revolted by my vote,” she said in a supermarket carpark in Rio de Janeiro, at an unusual pro-impeachment rally convened by right-wing groups. “Bolsonaro is overseeing a terrible government. He’s doing a disservice to the nation. His handling of the pandemic is completely wrong.“
Despite repeatedly denying the severity of the pandemic and overseeing a response that has blighted Brazil with the world’s second highest number of COVID-19 fatalities - more than 216,000 - after the United States, Bolsonaro ended 2020 riding high in the polls, buoyed by a generous coronavirus relief package.
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https://www.watoday.com.au/world/south-america/get-out-bolsonaro-say-ex-supporters-of-far-right-president-20210125-p56wpn.html
