Jair Bolsonaro
This Sunday (26), the government of President Jair Bolsonaro completes a thousand days. According to a poll conducted by the O Globo newspaper, its administration has faced 100 crises to date, an average of three a month.
The newspaper reports on Bolsonaro’s frequent move: he consulted with his ministers on how to deal with such crises. On September 8, after anti-democratic rallies in support of the president took place in the streets, the head of state met with his ministers to “vote” whether de Bolsonard should continue his radical speech or he should step back and calm down. exalted.
The president backed up his speech with fervor, but former president Michel Temer persuaded him to write a letter calming his relationship with the Federal Supreme Court (STF) and, in particular, with Minister Alexander de Moraes.
During the thousand days of Bolsonaro’s rule, 19 ministers left their portfolios. In the Ministry of Health alone, there were three ministry changes during the Covid-19 pandemic.
“The experience of the Bolsonaro government is unprecedented in the history of Brazil. We use to assess this government the measures and parameters that we use to assess the state manager. But these parameters are inadequate, because the Bolsonaro government does not even intend to manage public affairs without even creating a project for the country’s future “Says Globo historian Heloysa Starling, professor at UFMG.
Bolsonaro not only survived crises, but created them
Most of the crises experienced during the thousand days of Bolsonaro’s rule were caused by him. The president even participated in acts calling for the closure of Congress and the STF, and had protesters calling for military intervention. To show his support for the military, Bolsonaro fired Fernando Azevedo from the Ministry of Defense and replaced the commanders of the army, navy and air force – an unprecedented step in the Brazilian democratic period.
The rest of the crises were created by people around the president, with frequent conflicting statements from his elected ministers. Internationally, Bolsonaro is also causing friction with world leaders.
The Bolsonaro government has also been marked by an economic crisis with accelerating inflation and a growing line of unemployed workers. The rest of the presidential administration has many crises ahead of it.
“He is still very much radicalized because he cannot go to the second round without radicalization if the economy does not improve strongly. I don’t see Bolsonaro softening it to absolutely nothing, because he needs to keep this flame of radicalism alive. 25% of the population, ”says political scientist Umberto Dantas, education manager at the Center for Public Leadership, in an interview with Globo.
