The signs of victory of the conservatives turn right in Brazil
The signs of victory of the conservatives turn right in Brazil
RIO DE JANEIRO: a former army captain who won the presidential election in Brazil, joined the growing ranks of anti-establishment leaders around the world and displaced the largest nation in Latin America to the right.
Jair Bolsonaro, a champion of the 1964-1985 right-wing dictatorship in Brazil who once served, won 55% of the vote against Fernando Haddad of the Left Workers' Party.
As a paratrooper turned congressman, Mr. Bolsonaro pledged to start a new era of "order and progress": Brazil's national motto, adorned with its flag, attracting rich and poor voters who are fed up with endemic corruption and terrified by the spiral. crime.
But after years of making war speeches that have often offended Brazilian women, gays and blacks, as well as threatening their adversaries, Bolsonaro adopted a conciliatory tone after Sunday's result.
Jair Bolsonaro appears exuberant in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday.
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olivares pillar / Reuters
"You are my witnesses that this government will be a defender of the constitution, democracy and freedom and this is not just the promise of a party, or the empty words of a man, but an oath to God," he said in a statement. televised message. Address, speaking from his home in Rio de Janeiro, where he has been recovering from a near-fatal stabbing at the beginning of the campaign.
Flanked by his wife, a sign language interpreter and a black member of the armed forces, he promised to unite the Brazilians, reaffirming his plans to reform public finances and negotiate more trade agreements with the developed nations. In a video posted later on Facebook, he said that President Trump had called him to "wish us good luck."
Mr. Bolsonaro, a devout Christian who was recently baptized in the Jordan River, also prayed with evangelical leaders, while thousands of supporters gathered outside his house, causing fireworks and waving the yellow and green national flag of Brazil.
"We know he's not perfect, he's a human being like the rest of us, he says stupid things, he's intemperate, but even so it's the best hope we have for a better Brazil," said Eliana Falcão, 41. Primary teacher, with green and yellow stripes painted on her face. Like many of Mr. Bolsonaro's supporters, she voted for the military as a way to avoid the return of Mr. Haddad's Workers Party. "We want to get rid of this band of leftists," he shouted over the cries of the crowd.
Throughout the campaign, Mr. Haddad, the substitute candidate by former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who was jailed this year for corruption, has struggled to overcome voter hatred towards the Workers' Party.
He has ruled Brazil for much of the past 15 years and oversaw the deepest recession in the country, as well as the vast corruption scandal in carwash.
Speaking after Sunday's result, Mr. Haddad said he would continue to monitor his supporters, who fear that Mr. Bolsonaro will delay the rights of homosexuals and women, intimidate political opponents and pose a threat to the young democracy of the country. country.
"I saw the anguish and the fear in the face of many people ... but do not be afraid, we will be here, we will be with you," he said.
Sunday's vote ends one of the most turbulent electoral campaigns in Brazil's recent history, which has sparked bitter fights between family and friends.
After surviving the assassination attempt in September, Mr. Bolsonaro, 63, has campaigned mostly from his home in Rio de Janeiro, attracting supporters and provoking opponents through social networks.
Meanwhile, Mr. da Silva continued to call for gunfire for the Workers' Party from his police cell in southern Brazil, holding frequent meetings with Mr. Haddad, who registered as his lawyer to secure the rights of regular visits.
Fernando Haddad speaks to the press and supporters after confirming his defeat.
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Paulo Lopes / Zuma Press
"I've never seen so much anger before," said Wanderlei Guedes, a clinical psychologist in Brasilia for 25 years, who said his patients have come to him more and more after having friends and co-workers during the election.
Bolsonaro's victory marks the rupture of a party system that was established after the end of the military government in the mid-1980s, reflecting both the rise of anti-establishment policies and populist nationalism throughout the world.
Competing for the little-known PSL Conservative Party, Mr. Bolsonaro is the first presidential winner since 1989 who does not belong to the Workers' Party or the centrist PSDB Party in Brazil.
"Bolsonaro won the presidential election with a comfortable margin, mounted on a strong anti-establishment wave of voter anger against the parties and traditional politicians of Brazil," said Christopher Garman at political risk firm Eurasia Group, but added that he will probably face a difficult way ahead.
The voters' disenchantment means that they will probably enjoy only a short honeymoon period, which will make it even more difficult to pass the deep fiscal reforms they have promised, especially since they promised not to exchange government charges for the support of Congress. "It seems that his unorthodox campaign will result in an unorthodox administration," said Mr. Garman.
The rise of Mr. Bolsonaro. Experts and rivals stunned in recent months.. Winning supporters, from billionaire bankers in the city to members of the Amazon tribes, appealed to voters through social and class divisions, even turning the former followers of Mr. da Silva.
His promise to give the police carte blanche to kill suspected criminals and arm civilians for self-defense found support in a country with nearly 64,000 murders last year.
"I'm afraid to go out at night when it gets dark," said Raquel Nunes, 27, secretary of São Paulo and an avid supporter of Mr. Bolsonaro. "But he's going to solve this, he's going to be firm, talking did not get us anywhere, so we need to respond strongly."
An advocate of traditional family values, Mr. Bolsonaro gained support among evangelical Christians, now a third of the population of Brazil, while his plan to open the economy and reduce public debt by 20% won his disciples equally loyal in the financial markets.
The shares and the currency of Brazil have increased more than 10% since mid-September at the prospect of their victory.
But her comments advocate beating children to prevent them from becoming "homosexuals" and arguing that women deserve lower wages than men who have horrified the electorate's fringes.
That includes many of his own supporters, who say they backed the military as the only alternative available to the Workers' Party.
Mr. Bolsonaro's opponents fear that his plans to facilitate environmental controls to boost mining and agricultural activities will have a devastating impact on the Amazon rainforest.
They also point to his public defense of torture and his election of army generals to key positions in government as a threat to democracy.
But while many poorer voters are still on the side of the Workers' Party and Mr. da Silva, the first charismatic president of the working class in Brazil, some say they are now willing to take risks with Mr. Bolsonaro, with the hope that can restore order in the economy. as well as the streets.
"It's the only opportunity we have for change," said Rafaela Teixeira, 42, a coconut water vendor in Rio de Janeiro who grew up in one of the city's poor neighborhoods. The rising homicide rate in Brazil is bad for business, he said. "Foreigners no longer want to come here and it's because of the lack of security and for all the people who die in the middle of the street."
Like many voters on Sunday, he said that the accusation in 2016 of Mr. Da Silva's successor, Dilma Rousseff, had given him the confidence to prove a more radical president. Once Mr. Bolsonaro takes office on January 1, he will have to please people to keep their job, said Ms. Teixeira. "If not, we'll take it by the neck and throw it out, as we did with Dilma."
-Jeffrey T. Lewis
and Paulo Trevisani
Contributed to this article.
Write to Samantha Pearson in samantha.pearson@wsj.com and Luciana Magalhaes in Luciana.Magalhaes@wsj.com
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