Right-wing wave in Brazil's Congress boosts Bolsonaro camp ahead of presidential runoff
The party won 121 lower-house seats and 28 Senate seats, giving the Bolsonaro camp a stronger platform to push its agenda.
- On Sunday, Brazil's right-wing Liberal Party emerged as the biggest winner in congressional elections, securing the largest single-party representation in both the Senate and the lower house.
- The Liberal Party increased its Senate representation from 15 to 28 seats and secured 121 lower house seats, up from 98, while a center-to-right coalition projects to win close to 250 lower house seats.
- Senator Flavio Bolsonaro aims to use this allied Congress to grant amnesty to his father, former President Jair Bolsonaro, who is serving a 27-year sentence for plotting a coup after losing the 2022 election.
- Legislative watchdog DIAP head Neuriberg Dias warned that "Governance would pose a major challenge for President Lula," adding that a right-wing bloc would stifle legislative progress.
- Former President Bolsonaro praised voter turnout after the vote, saying "I was very happy to see how many Brazilians went to the polls to make their voices heard and didn't stay on the sidelines because they want change.
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Jornal Expresso
SapoThe next President of Brazil will work with a Congress in which the right was strengthened, after the party that had Flávio Bolsonaro as presidential candidate has increased the bench both in the Senate and in the Chamber of Deputies, at the expense of the centron
Faced with the results of the elections in Brazil, environmental organizations warn that the new power scheme in Congress favors groups that support mining and agribusiness
It happened. Regardless of the result of the second round, the great political fact is the victory of the right in the Senate, which, from now on, announces a year of institutional crises with the STF. Exclusive material for subscribers. To have full access, access the link of the subject and register.
Los Angeles Times
Independent EspañolIndigenous and environmental organizations in Brazil expressed their concern on Monday about the weekend election results, warning that the far right's advances in Congress could threaten indigenous peoples, who play a key role in protecting the Amazon and other Brazilian ecosystems.
The Liberal Party, the platform of Flávio Bolsonaro's presidential candidacy, won 121 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and passed from 15 to 28 seats in the Senate, which translates into the largest representation of a single party in both chambers in almost 40 years. With the support of other conservative forces, Bolsonaro would thus guarantee a comfortable governance, in case of being elected president, and could even pursue the promised amnes…
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