Already in the hotel breakfast room, it is obvious that something different has occurred in Brazil. The guests are dressed in the brazilian football team’s shirts, but that it is capped. Some have even wrapped himself in the brazilian flag.
It is not the love of the national sport that unites the guests but the love for the nation. For the first time since the dictatorship fell in 1985, Brazil had a nationalist military to the president.
“It is a historic moment,” says Alessandro Loiola.
São Paulo, and has traveled with his wife and daughter to Brasilia to support the nationalist wave in Brazil.
– For the first time since 1891, we get a really conservative right-wing government again, ” he says.
Bolsonaros supporters united by love to the nation. Photo: EVARISTO SA
he thinks that Brazil was enough right.
– Our flag should never be red. We want to have financial freedom, ” he says and is echoed by the wife and the daughter.
On the esplanade in front of the congress where Jair Bolsonaro shall swear the government has more nationalists gathered. Many are members of the military and have nostalgic memories of the dictatorship, when they felt that Brazil was a better country.
“You could walk the streets without being robbed,” says a man.
the school was discipline, ” says another.
No one was talking about gender studies, ” says a third.
in green yellow shirts with Bolsonaros face. On the shirt is his valslogan ”Brazil first and foremost, God of all”. Many of those who voted Jair Bolsonaro are christian fundamentalists. One of the most fanatical is Bolsonaros minister of foreign affairs, Ernesto Araújo.
In this month’s issue of the american magazine The New Criterion, he wrote about their relationship to God. ”I don’t care if my detractors call me crazy for I believe in God and think that God controls history. God is back and the nation is back.”
Outside the cathedral, where Jair Bolsonaro and his 25 year younger wife to be blessed, stands a lonely man who wrapped himself in the israeli flag. He pays tribute to Bolsonaro for his willingness to move to the Brazilian embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.
– Finally we get an action-oriented president, ” says the man.
called for the ”feverish Trump”. The difference is that the US president ran a successful business empire while Bolsonaro not accomplished much. After having been thrown out of the military because of civil disobedience, he began a political career. Time and time again, he was re-elected as an mep to the congress of a group of far-right voters, many of whom are military personnel, police officers, and their respective. Despite the fact that Bolsonaro changed the batch six times has kärnväljarna been faithful to him.
Bolsonaros political schooling took place during the Cold war and he is still at the command of a kommunistskräck. For three days he said that the reason for the brazilian primary school end up so low in the ranking in the world is that the curriculum is guided by a marxist ideology. Bolsonaro is critical to the law that former president Lula da Silva introduced that it should be mandatory to read about the history of the school since the majority of the population has roots in Africa. Bolsonaro want to repeal the law and also take the opportunity to remove the gender studies and sexual education.
opponents believe that he is a ”fascist,” which managed to be democratically elected. The views are echoed by the Italian sociologist Domenico de Masi who has studied fascism emergence in Italy and believe that Bolsonaro is clearly inspired by fascism. That Bolsonaro desired that the dictatorship would have killed a further 30.000 leftist is an example of his controversial views.
– The physical elimination of opponents was one of the characteristics of the Mussolini regime, ” says Domenico de Masi to the BBC.
Bolsonaros voters gathered in Brasilia to support Bolsonaro after he was sworn in on new year’s day, at the 18-time Swedish time. Photo: EVARISTO SA
Bolsonaro included in the wave of authoritarian högernationalister that gained power in many parts of the world the last few years. One of the most prominent in Europe is the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán, who sacrificed his nyårshelg to fly to Brazil.
He is the only european prime minister who is involved in the eu, thus breaking a tradition. When the labor party Lula da Silva took office in 2003, the Swedish prime minister, Göran Persson, and when Dilma Rousseff was installed in 2014 was prime minister Stefan Löfven on the spot. In the years represented most of the EU countries only by their ambassadors.
“No reputable countries in Europe want to do with him,” says the brazilian political scientist Mauricio Santoro.
leaders who attended the ceremony were the prime minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu. He began his stay in Brazil to spend a few days with Bolsonaro in Rio de Janeiro, where the leaders agreed on a comprehensive cooperation in terms of security and monitoring.
Bolsonaro also has plans to buy the desalination plant from Israel and place in the dry northeast of Brazil where the workers Party has its strongest support. According to Benjamin Netanyahu Bolsonaro also confirmed that Brazil intends to move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. If this is the case can the arab world will stop buying halalslaktat meat from Brazil, which is a deal of several billion dollars a year.
” I don’t care about these shops. The important thing for me is that the Labor party is gone and that the right is back. We have been waiting for many years, ” says Ana Perreira.
She has been flying with her daughter from the city of Maceio, on the coast to be with when Bolsonaro thread presidentbandet over his shoulder.
– It is a moment I have been waiting for, ” she says.
on election to increase security and reduce corruption. Many brazilians are unhappy with how the country is managed and hope that the former yrkesmilitären to bring order to the world’s fifth largest country. A survey shows that 65 per cent of the population believe that Bolsonaro will guide Brazil to a good or very good way. Optimism is reminiscent of the one that was available in Brazil when Lula da Silva took office in 2003 and led the country on its most successful period ever.
– I liked Lula. He did the country good. It was his successor who asked for it, ” says Ana Perreira.
She aims at Brazil’s first female president Dilma Rousseff who took over from Lula da Silva, and got an economic crisis on the neck. She is now away from politics and Lula da Silva sits in prison convicted of corruption.
– We are a corrupt country. Brazilians are corrupt. It will certainly take place in this government also, but I hope in any case that it will be less, ” she says.
the cathedral sweeps a man of the street. He is one of the few black people among the hundreds of thousands of white supporters who gathered to pay tribute to Bolsonaro.
– It is to get used to. Racism will once again be housebroken, he thinks.
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