Brazil thread 2023-

[Red Velvet]

The media used harsh criticism in the day following Lula's statement, some pundits said that Lula was moving Brazil far from the "civilized" (=western) world. But after the so soft answers of Anthony Blinken and Annalena Baerbock, the media lowered the level of criticism. It is a kind of underdog behavior. Brazilian media usually sees the leaders of developed countries as their leaders.

The thing to measure Brazilian mainstream media opinions is that they will always be scandalized by anything they perceive to be opposition to the Western world because they identify with it. It’s a White Elite controlling information even if the country itself as a whole doesn’t have the same background.

So the extremely weak US/Germany response, basically not caring at all in public, automatically strengthens Lula’s position to the media, which is now being more defensive and following a narrative in line of what you’re defending as the “correct” position. Because the initial reaction was to easily fall prey to the Far-Right hysteria yeah.

You immediately notice how dumb these people in Brazilian media are because it’s not even like the USA government likes Lula’s statement because they don’t, it’s just that they happen to be in an electoral year where this topic is very sensitive to their young electorate and opposing Lula on the matter wouldn’t play good domestically for them when they want to convince these US kids they minimally are concerned about Palestinians dying.

Also, democrats may be the same as republicans in the sense they support the same monstrous evil policies, but democrats do it with shame. So it was always OBVIOUS the response outside Israel would be muted, making the talk of “international crisis” ridiculous. I always knew Lula would easily empower his position domestically and internationally through that phrase.

Internationally because of the respect he holds everywhere, both in the Global South and in the West. Domestically because of the reasons previously mentioned, the media ALWAYS caters to any international position that doesn’t creates tensions with the White countries they see as superior, which are US/Europe and that Israel isn’t really an essential part of in their mindset.

Now that they realize the initial impression of tensions with the West was completely pathetic, they’re only going back to business as usual status-quo by normalizing what Lula said to the population.

[Red Velvet]

The interviews with some of these Bolsonarists are HILARIOUS:

Interviewer: “Why are you wearing Israel’s flag?”

Bolsonarist Woman: “Because we are Christians, just like Israel”

Interviewer: “But Israel isn’t Christian, do you know that?”

Bolsonarist Woman: “But Israel represents us. We aren’t Socialists and we aren’t Communists. And Israel is like us.”

Average Low-Information Right-Wing person correlation with Israel support confirmed. These people are way too dumb and uneducated to even know what they stand for. Israel just became a bastion of the global far-right and they go along with it based on the ~vibes~

Lula needs to go more against Israel to press these MFs and energize the Anti-Bolsonarist base since Bolsonarists are fusing with Israel and bringing it into domestic politics. Do the exact opposite of what Biden is doing in the US, losing votes by catering to Israel despite the Trumpist/Israel alliance.

[Red Velvet]

Why is Tarcisio so popular as Governor of Sao Paulo?

He isn’t? At least from what I know in the city.

The State Interior may be a different story for being more conservative leaning, idk. Either way, I doubt it’s anything different than any approval that any average PSDB governor always had before.

[Red Velvet]

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Israel published in X a picture of the Bolsonaro's rally in São Paulo and expressed gratitude for the flags of Israel. So, a Minister of Foreign Affairs used his social network to promote a rally in a foreign country whose intent was opposiong to a trial of a former president who is suspicious of takink part of a plot against the democratic rules.

This is one more motive for Brazil to keep distance to Israel during Netanyahu's administration.

Distance? We should end diplomatic relationship with that country ASAP

[Red Velvet]

NEW Quaest poll asked Brazilians about their positions on Israel and Palestine.

Main conclusion from the poll is that even though a majority thinks Lula exaggerated on comparing Israel actions with Hitler’s genocide, opinions about Israel plummeted in comparison to same poll results in October 2023.

Israel “disapproval” is now on par with the Palestine “disapproval” for the 1st time. Results:

Do you think Lula exaggerated in comparing what’s happening in Gaza with Hitler’s Holocaust?

He exaggerated - 60%
He didn’t exaggerate- 28%
Don’t Know - 11%

Do you agree that Israel is exaggerating in their reaction against Hamas?

Agree - 36%
Disagree - 50%
Don’t Know - 15%

PUBLIC PERCEPTION ON ISRAEL
Favorable - 39% (-13!!!)
Unfavorable - 41% (+14!!!)
Don’t Know - 20% (-1)

PUBLIC PERCEPTION ON PALESTINE
Favorable - 23% (-4)
Unfavorable - 45% (+2)
Don’t Know - 32% (+1)

The change is related to when Israel was attacked by Hamas, in October 2023. Showing that as long as the war is prolonged, more likely is for public opinion to turn against Israel.

Meanwhile, Brazilian diplomacy raises the tone again against Israel, saying that it doesn’t have “Ethical or Legal” limits in their military offensive in Gaza, demanding a response from the international community.

[Red Velvet]

Is this poll dip related to Lula's recent comments on the Middle East?

Absolutely not because polls show the decrease happened within his core base - Northeast voters; Lower-income voters; etc. People who ignore the most foreign policy matters.

It’s about economic expectations not materializing after a year of Lula. Things didn’t get worse but they didn’t get better either and people romanticize 00s boom era a lot. Which is what creates disappointment with the meh results so far.

If the economy keeps growing around same 2% to 3% levels but without reflecting in clear gains on the bottom of society, it will be a Joe Biden situation for Lula because people give zero sh**ts about GDP growth if they don’t feel it reflects on their purchasing power. And everything still feels expensive; there isn’t the same formal job boom of opportunities from the later half of Lula government in the 00s.

After a year of government, people are beginning to demand their original high expectations to be met, honeymoon period is over.

Good news is that there is time to deliver good news but if the same muted scenario of “mediocre stability” with things staying the same then the Anti-incumbent bias will kick in like it’s happening everywhere in the world because societies are both more polarized while still way more demanding of great results like they’ve only been before in times of global crisis such as the 1929 crash.

Idk to expect tbh, I think things tend to get better but in a much slower pace than people demand nowadays.

[Red Velvet]

More news from Car-Wash operation, which in 2010s was glorified as a serious anti-corruption operation:

https://twitter.com/UOLNoticias/status/1768296124111057216

TRANSLATION: Car-Wash prosecutors discussed (Supreme Court Minister) Cármen Lúcia's hygiene and HIV without SUS: "50% ironic, 50% homophobic"

➡️ Even Lula's late wife, Marisa Letícia, was targeted. She was called the "tribufu of Stalinist hell”. @revistapiaui had access to the content of these conversations.

https://twitter.com/delucca/status/1768330129028137041

TRANSLATION: The level of absurdity in the messages exchanged between Car-Wash prosecutors was something so underground (Brazilian Slang for “Low”) that there were people defending and being applauded by others in the group for proposing the over-taxation of “those who get HIV”.

The entire matter reported by @revistapiaui is one disaster after another.

We had the extreme right in the judiciary bubble executing whatever they wanted for the sake of political gains while the Supreme Court acted passive/submissive to it before it realized whow the process and the people involved were a joke.

The current “Supreme Court high-activity” the far-right complains so much about NOW is a direct result and response to this type of sh*t that has been discovered, of the political weaponization of the judiciary that they started themselves lmao. Karma is a bitch.

[Red Velvet]

The brothers Domingos Brazão and Chiquinho Brazão were arrested today because the Federal Police finally found out that these two politicians were the masterminds of the murder of Rio de Janeiro councilor Marielle Franco (PSOL) in 2018. This crime shocked the world. Even Paris and Berlin have public squares named after the councilor. In 2019, the Civilian Police of the State of Rio de Janeiro found out that former policeman Ronnie Lessa was the responsible for the shoots. In exchange for the reduction of prison time, Lessa denounced Brazão brothers.
Brazão brothers are close to the paramilitary groups (milícias) composed by active and former policemen who control many favelas in Rio de Janeiro. Marielle Franco was close to human right activists and her main agenda was opposing this paramilitary groups.
Former head of Civilian Police of the State of Rio de Janeiro Rinaldo Barbosa was also arrested for harming the investigation.

Some people of the left though that some members of Bolsonaro family might be participating in the crime, since this family is also close to the paramilitary groups. But they were not.
Brazão brothers supported Jair Bolsonaro in 2018 and 2022. But Domingos Brazão supported Dilma Rousseff in 2010. They are right-wing but they are a kind of politician who always like to be close to the power.

See the Guardian article here: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/24/marielle-franco-two-powerful-politicians-arrested-over-brazil

Just say they’re from “Centrão” (“Big Center”) that most people will get it at this point.

Anyway the Chief of Police of Rio at the time of the murder being arrested for protecting the ones who ordered the crime just shows what everyone already knew: Rio de Janeiro Police = Militia Gangs.

These two are way too intertwined at this point to make a distinction. The murder resolution was kinda obvious and it was only solved because they took it away from the Rio state sphere and put the investigation into the hands of the Federal Police instead.

Rio state is ruled by crime these days and only Centrão governors can get elected. Motivation for Marielle’s murder is related to the expansion of militia-controlled areas.

My solution would be to get rid of all of Rio’s police and get fully new people inside. They would eventually get corrupted into crime as well because of the influence of politicians being structural at this point but a restart to get out the current rotten apples would at least mitigate the current critical scenario.

[Red Velvet]

The memes have gone viral more than the actual pics:

[Red Velvet]

Macron looks like happy

[pictures]

Did Macron visit Brazil lol?

Yes, why? France, in theory at least, has been the best European partner for Brazil since at least previous Lula’s governments and the unexpected Lula-Sarkozy friendship.

Lula even committed a silly gaffe and called Macron “Sarkozy” in an Anazon event, which led to some ill-intentioned people to say that Lula is becoming senile, stuck in memories of the past.

He began his visit in Belém do Pará (local of these Amazônia forest romance pics), where he and Lula announced an investment program of 1 Billion Euros in the Bioeconomy of the Amazon Forest of Brazil and (French) Guyana.

He also went to Itaguaí in Rio de Janeiro to inaugurate the Brazilian military submarine, made from a Brazil-France partnership. Macron supported there technology cooperation to develop Brazil’s (and Latin America’s) 1st nuclear submarine as well, in order to guarantee peace.

He participated in an Industry event in São Paulo too and I didn’t read much about it, only that he criticized the Mercosul - UE deal as bad for both sides. France has been the main actor stopping the deal due to being a more economically protectionist country in Europe, as opposed to Germany for example.

[Red Velvet]

Macron's trip to Brazil is good for Lula because he can answer to the criticism that he is being too anti-west (he is not). It is also good for Macron because he be related to a progressive agenda (preservation of Amazon forest) and he can meet a left-wing leader. Macron was minister of center-left government and became critized to have moved too much to the right in his 2nd term.

Brazil and France have a long history of friendship. In the past, France used to be a model of civilization for the Brazilian elites,  more than the English-speaking world. When the University of São Paulo was founded in 1932, a french mission came to Brazil in order to establish academic programs. France likes to be closer to the 3rd world more than other 1st world countries are.

I wouldn’t say there’s something more special about Brazil-France historical relationship more than Brazil-Elsewhere from the Main Western countries tbh, but my impression is that during Lula terms he tends to personally get along with French leaders and vice-versa.

Or at least they want to sell this impression. These photos are like a Pre-Wedding book with these two holding hands, smiling and having fun, which is quite unconventional to see, be it with Western leaders or Non-Western leaders.

Olaf Scholz came here twice since Lula assumed and it was always more formal meetings. And he’s in theory more ideologically closer to Lula than Macron.

Same thing Latin American leaders who came here and don’t take these romantic pictures to make propaganda about like Macron is doing:

https://twitter.com/EmmanuelMacron/status/1773485139777011767
https://twitter.com/EmmanuelMacron/status/1773505759399006332
My honest impression is that more recently, since Lula-Sarkozy at very least, both France and Brazil see each other as strategic and complementary in different ways.

Sarkozy described Brazil in his book as a key strategic bilateral partner for France because it’s “not Small enough to be irrelevant the effort like most 3rd world countries but also not Big enough to have a role of dominance in the bilateral relationship like with US”.

Both are similar-sized economies by GDP so that stimulates a more equal dynamic for both sides in terms of leverage. Easier to have a productive but also equalitarian partnership for both.

France is also the one European country that doesn’t feel like it’s fully submissive to USA, which is an unbalanced relationship for France AND Brazil so in terms of Brazilian interests where we don’t match or find common ground with USA, it’s more likely that we will find cooperation within France.

The Nuclear Submarine “know-how” cooperation is a perfect example of this, with US being against other countries cooperating with us on the matter and even campaigning on this as for them, the less countries concentrate this technology, the better.

Only 6 countries have the technology of Nuclear propulsion in order to create this kind of Submarine: USA; Russia; China; India; UK and France.

USA and even China are unbalanced relationships to get cooperation on this kind of matter. UK is only USA pet and would boycott us by US request. India still way too geopolitically distant. Russia could be viable but would create tensions and suspicions.

Which makes France the perfect partner to get this Nuclear tech cooperation and information from so that we become the 7th country in the world to get Nuclear Submarines.

That isn’t to say we always agree in everything, far from that. EU-Mercosur deal disagreements and stances on Russia/Ukraine were points of mismatch during the visit for example but nothing that stopped that “romance” pictures propaganda.

Basically, Brazil-France dynamics are VEEERY different and more specific than general France-3rd World bilateral relationships. I wouldn’t say France is a “friend that likes the 3rd world” for instance, just look at France relationship dynamics in OTHER countries and it will look way more disproportionate.

[Red Velvet]

Wikipedia also mentions 2008 (Year of Lula-Sarkozy duo) as the landmark of when the bilateral strategic relationship began:

Brazil and France entered a formal strategic alliance in 2008.[2][3] France supports Brazil's ambition to become a global player on the international scene,[4] and has been a strong supporter of the Brazilian bid for a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council. Through significant technology transfers, France intends to help Brazil acquire key technologies of a major world power in the military, space, energy and technology sectors.[4]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil–France_relations

Granted, this strategic relationship seems to only exist while the Left is in power in Brazil because Bolsonaro put the France relationship in the trash hahahaha

[Red Velvet]

Bolsonaro put Brazil in the trash, more like.

Wrong. Car-wash did and it wasn’t an organic movement. Bolsonaro and hardcore right-wing extremism was only the natural consequence for such anti-establishment hate that it stimulated.

Most places in “Western” world seem to be subjected to it though, even if it was quickly anticipated here. But I agree Bolsonaro is on a noticeable lower level of intellectual abilities than the average member of the far-right global movement.

[Red Velvet]

On the short term: Fine the hell out of Twitter/X for not complying with Brazilian judiciary orders and if they not fold, simply ban the platform in here altogether. F*** Elon Musk right where it hurts him.

On the long term: We need clearer and more specific legislation on Social Media so that monocratic decisions by the judiciary aren’t necessary every single time anyone commits a crime online. It’s ridiculous that a gringo with a sh*t face is openly disrespecting Brazilian courts but the current scenario also isn’t sustainable.

[Red Velvet]

Sometimes I ask what have we done to be so blessed? Because it’s not like I feel we deserve it.

First we get rid of Bolsonaro in 2023 and now we’re about to get rid of X/Twitter in 2024? Make it happen now. The Global Far-Right is scared as hell about Brazil being the First country in the world to hold them accountable for their crimes, setting a precedent for other nations with this problem to follow.

X has to fall in line with Brazilian law if it wants to operate here. Fine the hell out of them per day for every day they don’t comply with our justice and if they don’t pay, simply ban that hellish platform X in the country for good.

[Red Velvet]

https://twitter.com/felipeneto/status/1777110004115406893
Translation:

Did “Rocket Quico” [Elon Musk] really disobey any Supreme Court decision so far?

Because between talk and actions, there is an abyss.

As far as I've seen, banned accounts of criminals remain banned, for example.

If he does nothing, besides being a neo-fascist agitator, Elon Musk is also a coward wimp.

To be seen.

Brazilian biggest online content producer and influencer has spoken. He seems to believe Elon Musk is only talk with this intent of lifting up twitter bans ordered by the Supreme Court and is too much of a coward to really unban the far-right agitators, which would risk Twitter existence and access in Brazil being blocked as those bans were judicial orders by the Supreme Court.

[Red Velvet]

Elon Musk is "brave" enough to create trouble only in the global periphery.

Germany has a very strict legislation concerning nazi speech and anti-semitism and Elon Musk is not fighting for free speech in Germany.

Exactly. But I think it’s a mix of the racism you mention (deluded western gringos assuming they have superior morals to lecture how others have to follow them) and also fear though, because they see it as a precedent that it could be used in their countries to contain the far-right disinformation tactics in case it works.

German legislation prohibiting Nazi expressions is something older and more established, not related to the current methods of the far-right of applying their disinformation strategy. They currently are given blanche card everywhere to attack democracy while protecting themselves under the same democratic free-speech system they are against.

Notice how it’s Elon Musk and general far-right US and International activists making noise about it. It’s because they know that these disinformation methods are what sustain them so if these tactics get repressed by the law, they can go back to the hole they came from. It’s about fear of the creation of positive precedents.

To be clear, I don’t really think Supreme Court monocratic decisions should be necessary for trivial stuff like this - banned X accounts - and I think Alexandre de Moraes has too much power on the matter as I’ve criticized here some previous decisions, such as the Monark ban for example.

But that is a matter for the elected Brazilian Congress to choose to address (or not, considering who they are) by creating specific legislation for the matter. It’s not up some random foreigner with hidden interests to contest or disobey.

The absence of this more specific legislation is what makes necessary for the judiciary to use their own interpretation of the law to protect Brazilian democracy from those who attack it and want to destroy it.

And if Congress doesn’t address this - and we know they won’t as it’s an actual relevant matter - then it’s the Brazilian people choosing to keep this status-quo otherwise they would elect politicians who are focused on resolving that kind of agenda.

We all know that in the end, the right-wing voters complaining about the judiciary being authoritarian will end up voting for some “Big Center” crook type that doesn’t give a damn about this OR some crazy Bolsonarist who pretends to care for the audience but is more concerned about Unissex bathrooms; Gun regulations and antagonizing everyone instead of doing politics.

[Red Velvet]

As much as I want it to happen, Twitter isn’t getting blocked in Brazil.

I also think so, but only because Elon Musk is too much of a coward to really follow through with his talk and really disobey Brazilian Supreme Court. He only feels free to be an agitator because he underestimates Brazilian Judiciary.

Brazilian telecommunication agency has already prepared our telecommunication operators about the possibility of taking X/Twitter off the air. If the Supreme Court decisions are really disobeyed instead of just threats, then Twitter will go off and be blocked in Brazil. Indian “Koo” could be a possible substitute for Twitter if this really happens.

Yesterday, as a response to these threats, Elon Musk was included as an investigated party in the current fake news inquiry and for each profile that is unbanned after judicial orders closed them will result in a DAILY fine of around $20k dollars (per profile and per day)

[Red Velvet]

Really revelatory how little attention this has gotten. A left wing leader's judicial appointees threaten to ban an entire website for hosting dissenting speech (in some cases not even dissenting speech in that country's language?) and to stop a popular former leader who got 49% of the vote just two years ago from running again on spurious charges, and the New York Times, the White House, et cetera have said nothing. By contrast, the Polish judicial reforms were treated as a herald of incoming dictatorship.

USA bans TikTok based on nothing  = WE NEED TO PROTECT OUR SOVEREIGNTY FROM CHINA

Brazil bans X if Elon Musk actively disobeys Brazilian sovereignty = MUH CENSORSHIP

It’s really revealing, though not surprising at all, how these different standards are applied.

Btw, Justice Alexandre de Moraes was appointed by Michel Temer, a center-right conservative president.

[Red Velvet]

Well, Whatsapp is kinda irreplaceable in the average Brazilian life. It’s the new telephone for Brazilians. People don’t call each other anymore, they just send a text or audio on Whatsapp.

Twitter relevance is way more questionable and limited.

Thing is, Twitter; Facebook; TikTok; Instagram are platforms where everything is public for everyone to see so you can actually trace criminal accounts.

Whatsapp you need to be included in a group where disinformation happens in order to see what happens and entrance is also often private as well. So definitely much more of a challenging platform to punish crimes and misinformation tactics.

[Red Velvet]

So, neither side is folding, after Alexandre de Moraes included Elon Musk in the fake news inquiry after his threats of not following court decisions, Elon Musk today called Alexandre de Moraes “Brazil’s Dictator”.

Brazilian government today announced the suspension of contracts with Starlink (Elon Musk company) and Senate President Rodrigo Pacheco related Musk’s actions to a search of profit, while also stressing the importance of creating more specific legislation for social media regulation:

PACHECO: Our children, young people and elderly people are at the mercy of a completely lawless field that allows everything in order to gain more engagement. With more engagement, in the end, everything comes down to profit, a search for money.

More money from more engagement in a social network that becomes more attractive when it shows violence, disunity, when it stimulates conflicts between right and left, between political characters. Ultimately, it is an indiscriminate, unethical and criminal search for profit and this, obviously, has to be contained by law and this is our role as the National Congress.

First Lady Janja Lula da Silva also made a public statement:

JANJA: Again, I am not surprised by the stance of Mr. @elonmusk who, in recent days, has made a series of posts attacking Brazilian sovereignty, personifying these attacks on the Minister of the Supreme Court @alexandre (Alexandre de Moraes).

Musk's announcement to release accounts that had been blocked by court decisions is disrespectful to a decision by the Brazilian judiciary. These profiles are used to spread fake news, hatred and misogyny, and also to support the January 8, 2023 coup attempt.

As Minister Alexandre de Moraes himself said: social networks are not a land without law! And platforms, in addition to obeying the judicial decisions of each country, must be held responsible for crimes committed within them.

I repeat again that this type of action by X, besides being a coordinated action against democracy, is also an action made in pursuit of profit and the civilized world shall not stand in its knees in front of this articulation made by the far-right that attempts to erode the foundations of our society.

#RegulamentationNow

[Red Velvet]

Brazão prison was maintained despite the Bolsonarist base position against AND the support of Lira to overrule the STF decision. That’s good news but I’m honestly surprised we’re in the sad position anything else was minimally under consideration.

Marielle Franco’s murder probably way too much big and on the media for some of these Big Center crooks to risk bad headlines just to save one of them and send a message to the Supreme Court interventionism. For them, instinctively, better to accept one individual getting cut and not antagonize the Supreme Court ministers in order to ensure the rest of them are preserved electorally by being invisible.

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Beautiful new official map. The earth is round.

Some details in this map when you look closer:

- Brazil at the Center of the World
- Brazilian Blue Amazon oceanic territory is shown
- Malvinas Islands and Georgia and Sandwich Islands are territory of Argentinian sovereignty (written as ARG in the map)
- Palestine is a State there, delimitated according to 1967 borders
- Tel Aviv is the capital of Israel and Eastern Jerusalem the capital of Palestine
- Taiwan is a part of China, one single China
- Ukrainian occupied territories are naturally part of Ukraine, but also Crimea is Ukrainian
- Essequibo is part of Guyana
- Kosovo doesn’t exist
- Western Sahara is part of Morocco
- Cyprus is one single country

Incredible how just a single official map can tell a lot of geopolitical positions.

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"Official" maps from the CIA have IIRC always shown Taiwan as part of mainland China.

Which makes sense as the official USA position is that Taiwan is part of Mainland China.

[Red Velvet]

The issue for me is not even being harsh on drugs, but doing it simply to antagonize the Supreme Court, which now looks way more competent for actual legislation than the congress that has that competence.

While the discussion about what differentiates the drug dealer from the drug user exists in the Supreme Court, the legislative seems completely uninterested in having that discussion. So much that the approved legislation puts the interpretation of the constitution on the hands of whoever enforces it, which is a complete mess and disaster as different standards can and will be applied depending on the judgement of the person who arrests and also the characteristics of whoever is arrested.

Mind-boggling to me that UNIFIED STANDARDS cannot ever be set. Even for a harsh conservative and right-wing perspective, that is 100% possible to do, just criminalize any and every user possession and punish it just like traffickers are punished but OF COURSE the Brazilian Congress is too much of a pussy to be actually be responsible of such a harsh measure. They would rather keep the chaotic mess by being anti legislation and let anybody interpret the Brazilian Constitution the way they want it and f**k the inequalities that will inevitably lead to.

White drug users will keep smoking weed and being considered “users” and Black users when smoking will be considered “traffickers” simply because Brazilian congress are a bunch of lazy cowards and crooks who are more interested in their individual political interests than they are in legislating anything.

Hard to hold the Brazilian Supreme Court accountable for “overstepping their reach” when that’s what naturally happens when a vacuum of power or leadership exists, allowing someone else to actually work. Bolsonaro hated working so that naturally led to the Legislative growing their power over the Executive. It’s the same thing with the Legislative being completely useless and absent on some discussions because they aren’t convenient for them and the Judiciary having to be a leadership on these many matters.

The legislation approved should be declared unconstitutional because it clearly is.