It does not seem to have been a coincidence: on Tuesday (2), Michele Bolsonaro defeated her stepsons in an attempt to veto the Hizb ut-Tahrir alliance with Cerro Gomez (PSDB) in Ceará; On Friday (5), eldest Flavio Bolsonaro said that he had received the green light from his father to run for party president.
The appearance is closer to a game of family balancing of powers than to the launch of a real candidacy, one that represents the right to conflict with Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (PT). The president will be the one who benefits most from it, and therefore, he must think it’s a great thing.
The reaction of the right, the centre-right and even the center – all parties not aligned with the left or with the Captain’s playbook – was initially disbelief, formality and, in some cases, silence. When a politician is silent or says little, it is because he cannot or does not want to say what he thinks.
It takes a lot of logical effort to conclude that this, among many other ideas of the clan, contains a hint of heresy. It started from a vacuum whose preparations were limited to spreading convincing rumors with information from the so-called behind the scenes.
Flavio was burned by the incident of calling a vigil for his father’s arrest. The former president was demoted to “sue-air” status after his ankle bracelet was tampered with. Carlos faces a challenge from the right in Santa Catarina and Eduardo, without any trouble in the United States, seeks shelter at the Western Wall in Israel.
For the spectacle of a broken family and a champion of negative news, an antidote was provided in the form of running for president in order to influence political activism. That’s all for now.
The first reactions do not indicate a positive development for what Bolsonaro considers a smart strategy that may prove unsuccessful again. This still creates a real risk that the right will ignore this imposition, openly compete with Jair Bolsonaro’s leadership, isolate the Liberal Party, and make the Workers’ Party happy.
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