2026 arrives with its election and an omen brought by Datafolha: 35% of those questioned identify with the right and 22% with the left. Nothing new under this indigo sky. In August 2006, a similar poll indicated that the right obtained 47% against 30% for the left. In 2010, Dilma was elected.
With the dilution of labels such as left and right, these classifications have lost their effectiveness. The right has the iron ball of the Bolsonaro family attached to its foot. The left has two: failure to promote a public safety agenda and ill will toward agribusiness.
A few years ago the image of a BBB bench was created, that is: the ox, the Bible and the ball. Those who underestimated the political potential of the three Bs forgot that the B for bull was agribusiness, the B for Bible referred to the country’s best-selling book, and the B for bullet brought together politicians who follow the maxim that “a good criminal is a dead criminal.”
The left has questionable behavior towards B for balls. While the Rio police killed 122 “suspects” in Penha and Governor Cláudio Castro enjoyed a renewed popularity, Lula did not hesitate to describe the operation as a “massacre”.
When the PT mayor of Maricá (RJ), Washington Quaquá, declares that “a criminal’s place in Maricá is in the ditch”, Lula and the PT members pretend to disagree.
This doubt comes from the absence of a security policy without ditches or killings. When Minister Ricardo Lewandowski presented his public security program, his advisers suggested the idea of bombing the federal highway police, Flávio Bolsonaro’s stronghold.
Lula will enter 2026 with the end of the transition from six days of work to one day of rest. The right will be against, as it was against the law of the free uterus, the abolition, the eight-hour day and the 13th salary.
It remains to be seen whether a right that produced a president who campaigned against vaccines during an epidemic will have the flexibility to lend rationality to its arguments against the new scale.
Peluso wants a code of conduct
Since October, when he signed a study by the Fernando Henrique Cardoso Foundation evaluating the Federal Court, former minister Antonio Cezar Peluso has defended the adoption of a code of conduct for STF judges.
Thus, eight former presidents publicly defend the change, plus Minister Edson Fachin, current President of the Court, and Minister Cármen Lúcia.
In the names of others: Rosa Weber, Ayres de Britto, Marco Aurélio Mello, Carlos Velloso and Celso de Mello. All retired.
The presidents of the STF ascend to the presidency according to a rotation system. Three ministers (Luiz Fux, Dias Toffoli and Gilmar Mendes) were in office and remain in court, but did not speak out. Luís Roberto Barroso recently retired and is also remaining silent.
None of them is obliged to take a position, but Fachin’s proposal is opposed in silence. Against, in public, only Alexandre de Moraes, in a speech in 2024.
Strange silence, for a court which began the year 2025 by showing that it had convicted 371 people for the putschist riots of January 8.
It is not possible to know what wind is blowing in the Bolsonaro family, but the Christmas chaos, with Michelle speaking of “betrayal on the part of those close to her” and Flávio Bolsonaro announcing, in a handwritten message, the sponsorship of his candidacy by his father, indicates that things will go far.
As expected, former President Bill Clinton (1993-2001) fell into the circle of criminal bosses of the rich pervert Jeffrey Epstein.
We talk badly about Donald Trump (beneficiary of Epstein’s sexual relations circle) and the irrational inflection of the Republican party. It would be worth looking for the source of the crisis in the Democratic Party in the Bill-Hillary couple.
The president of the Central Bank, Gabriel Galípolo, is in a delicate situation in the case of the Master bank.
If you tell everything you know, you will change the essence of BC’s relationship with the banks and drive them into bankruptcy, but, in times of celebration and Roberto Carlos Special, you will make a million enemies.
So far, Galípolo has not been convincing about what he discussed in his contacts with Minister Alexandre de Moraes.
The clothes of popes are an indicator of their politics. Since his enthronement in 2005, Benedict XVI (2005-2013) has opted for the treasures of the Vatican and abandoned the steel crozier, with the suffering Christ, brought by Paul VI (1963-1978) and maintained by John Paul II (1978-2005). In addition, he made his red shoes famous.
Argentina’s Bergoglio reportedly declared that “the carnival is over” and Francis walked through his pontificate from 2013 to 2025 in enormous black shoes.
Leo
So far, he looks more like Francis than Benedict.
The Catholic Church began to change in 1958, when John XXIII began to renounce the throne on which he was carried on the shoulders of 12 men dressed in black. Years later, John Paul I sent it to storage.
Journalist Malu Gaspar said it all:
“The year 2025 ends in bitterness for many of those who believed in the trials of the January 8 putschists and in the attempt to prevent Lula’s inauguration from saving democracy.
All this because of the plot that begins with the contract of the wife of Alexandre de Moraes with the Master bank, providing for the payment of R$ 3.6 million per month for three years for previously unknown services, and which continues with the pressure of the minister on the president of the Central Bank, Gabriel Galípolo, to approve the sale of Master to BRB, the state bank of Brasilia.
About The Author
