“I have a dream,” said Pastor Martin Luther King in a speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington on August 28, 1963, defending unity and coexistence between blacks and whites. The following year, he won the Nobel Peace Prize. Four years later, he was murdered in a hotel in Memphis, Tennessee.
“I have a price,” Senator Flávio Bolsonaro said yesterday, about his candidacy for next year’s presidency, launched by himself on Friday with the approval of his father, who is serving a sentence of 27 years and three months in prison for attempted coup and violent abolition of democracy. Flávio will give up his dream if Bolsonaro is amnestied and “remains free at the polls”.
This won’t happen. First, because Congress is reluctant to approve an amnesty for those convicted on January 8, 2023. Second, because the Centrão parties want to get rid of Bolsonaro and his children. Third, because the Federal Court opposes it. Besides, most Brazilians are the same. About 54% of them believe Bolsonaro’s arrest is fair.
Who was the genius of the race who advised Flávio to admit the withdrawal of his candidacy just 48 hours after announcing it? It was certainly not Carlos, alias Carluxo, who came to his brother’s aid yesterday when he was at the beginning of political isolation. Without naming names, in a message published on social networks, Carluxo attacks other right-wing leaders:
– The “exempt” and the “clean”, those who said they were fighting for “the union of the right”, no longer want a union today. For what? Because many have proven themselves to be what they always were: little whores of the system. They are once again unmasked – and there will be more revelations. Time shows who is on the side of truth and who was just playing a convenient role.
The response was silence. No one gave a receipt. And even less Tarcísio de Freitas, governor of São Paulo, hidden subject of Carluxo’s message. A few hours earlier, Flávio had praised Tarcísio:
– Tarcísio is an exceptional guy. After the conversation I had with my father, the first person I wanted to talk to was Tarcísio. His reaction was the one I would have had if it had been the other way around. Today, for me, he is the main name of our team.
If he is the main candidate, Tarcísio should be the Bolsonarism candidate for president. But for now, it’s Flávio, and we don’t know when. He is the most rejected possible heir to Bolsonaro’s succession of votes. For the entire Brazilian electorate surveyed by Datafolha, only 8% consider that Flávio should be the first name chosen by their father. 22% prefer Michelle.
In the strictly Bolsonarist camp of the electorate, Michelle reached 35% of preferences, Tarcísio 30%, Eduardo 14% and Flávio only 9%. Michelle and Eduardo maintain their support for Flávio. Tarcísio remains silent, waiting for something to take Flávio out of his way. Both the right and the left have commissioned research to measure the real impact of Flávio’s candidacy.
It’s a lively end to the year for those who follow and love politics.
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