Brazil’s right-wing president Jair Bolsonaro sponsored candidates are expected to win control of Congress next month, politicians and analysts said on Monday, despite controversy of the management of the pandemic.
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BRASILIA, Jan 18 (Reuters) - President Jair Bolsonaro s
candidate to become the next speaker of the lower chamber of
Brazil s Congress favors helping the most needy Brazilians hit
by the coronavirus pandemic, but vows to keep the country s
budget deficit under control.
In written responses to queries from Reuters on Friday,
Arthur Lira said an alternative had to be found to extending
last year s emergency transfers that are on track to cost 322
billion reais ($61 billion) and blow a record hole in the
government s finances. Our concern today is to comply with the spending ceiling,
Lira said, questioning where the resources would come from to
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The results of the recent municipal elections in Brazil were interpreted in distinct ways by the different actors involved. For some analysts, they clearly signaled a weakness of the 2018 far-right wave and of president Bolsonaro’s ability to successfully endorse candidates.
For others, they indicated a low-risk voting preference: the restricted campaign due to Covid-19 allegedly favored the re-election of mayors and city councilors as well as of candidates affiliated to well-established political parties.
Indeed, the strengthening of several right and center-right parties prompted some to assert the return of the ‘old politics’, or of politics proper, as opposed to the anti-political tendency of the last presidential election.