There is an extravagant mania among Brazilian presidents to take advantage of the opportunity, while abroad, to talk to local journalists about controversial and very important issues that they do not talk about domestically. It was in the past with former representatives Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Lula, Dilma Rousseff and Michel Temer, and now it happened to Jair Bolsonaro in his work. tour Arab countries, and again with Lula, who is campaigning in Europe before announcing whether he will be a presidential candidate in next year’s election, as my colleague commented. Afonso Benitez, correspondent for EL PAÍS in Brasilia.

Lula did not appear in public, even at the Handicap Bolsonaro demonstrations, and he did not go out to meet people. However, he travels to several countries in Europe, where he is already running as a presidential candidate and accepted as such. It is in these countries that he tackles the serious problems facing Brazil and even foreign policy contradictions such as the PT’s difficult relationship with takes place in Nicaragua and in Cuba, topics that the PT member did not comment on.

Bolsonaro, in turn, during his visit to the countries of the Persian Gulf, finds himself involved from there in polemics about new political relations with the LP of Valdemar Costa Neto, with which he has already decided. wedding day… Suddenly, he asked to postpone the ceremony because he was not sure if he loved his possible future partner. Prior to this, Bolsonaro was politically bachelor. He was a strange head of state without a party, something unique to the world’s democratic governments. He left the party that led him to victory because he could not dominate it as he wanted and became a widower. He intended to create a new one that he could call his own and manipulate at will, which is normal for his dictatorial zeal, but he did not receive the 500,000 signatures he needed.

Since he could not wait any longer, since for re-election he needed to be associated with some kind of party, he decided to go in search of a bride in order to marry again. Bolsonaro won the election, vowing that put an end to old politics corrupt. After his election in between coming and going, he ended up falling in love with LP, considered one of the most corrupt parties per square meter. Its president and owner, Waldemar Costa Neto, was imprisoned for monthly…

When Bolsonaro’s most ardent supporters expressed bewilderment that he had chosen the PL, the president grumpily replied, “They want me to talk. with PSOL, with PCdoB? “. The wedding was finally scheduled for the next 22nd in Brasilia with great fanfare. One of the parties, LP, knew that he would marry a millionaire who owned the state treasury. Thus, he announced that the wedding would be an event in Brasilia, to which more than 1,500 people from all over the country would be invited. And all this until Bolsonaro suddenly from the Arab countries where he is, sent a message on Sunday evening asking him to postpone the wedding, because he was not sure if he wanted to get married, as he still had unresolved questions. …

The news surprised even the most sophisticated politicians, accustomed to great betrayal and long-knife nights in Congress. It is still possible that the PL will make the final concessions to avoid missing out on a sumptuous wedding, or that the fickle president will leave him waiting at the altar. Bolsonaro for 30 years was a member of nine different parties of the so-called lower clergy, which spoilage crumbs from the tables at the banquets of the cardinals of the great parties, he was never true to the initials he passed through. Political treason is in your genetics.

A few days ago, the president laughed loudly in front of his office next to his wife Michel, making an unpleasant comment that none of those present could laugh at. fairy tale, in your best macho stylewho had already given her a “very nice day.” It is possible that the captain will end up marrying his new sweetheart, PL. However, as political observers in Brasilia predict, this will be another marriage of compromise that few expect to last until the October elections, if at all.

The president’s political loyalty is as strong as hair blowing in the wind. And this is the drama of Brazil: at one of the most critical and bitter moments in its history, it is ruled by someone who does not inspire confidence and confidence to get out of the crisis. The country is in your hands to be elegant, from a moody teenager who still doesn’t know if he wants to be an adult or keep playing like a child who never stops growing up and is difficult to trust. Even more so when you insist on staying at the helm of a sinking boat.

However, as some political observers point out, it is also possible that Bolsonaro has doubts about the PL’s loyalty. If the acronym manages to remain faithful to him until re-election, which is his only dream, or he will abandon it sooner if he sees that he comes to the vote weakened. The political infidelity of the party elected by the widowed president has always been known, as has the party’s infidelity. other parties Centrão, those who are most involved in corruption and know how to give themselves to those who offer the most.

In the case of Bolsonaro’s new political love, the future party knows that it will have to marry him not only to him, but also to his three children, who are equally greedy for positions and advantages. It is no coincidence that the decision to postpone the wedding arrived from dubaiwhere the president is with his two children, who want to be at least the godfathers of a political wedding, with very specific requirements.

In fact, it remains to be seen whether Brazil is actually being ruled by a captain or for your childrenwith, they all imitate their father in their coups and fascist raptures, and also fight in the Centrão parties and their non-republican appetites. The President has already taken the children with him on official state trips to 11 countries of the world. It seems that in the end Bolsonaro makes important political decisions by listening to his offspring. Not coincidentally, in one of your new novel a politician to postpone the wedding would have responded LP Costa Neto’s president, the site said. antagonist: “It will take … you and your children.” In this political underworld, everything is very elegant, and a country that strives for peace and knows how to live in harmony is fighting for a job that allows them to feed their children.

(Rewritten from El Pais)