{"id":10527,"date":"2018-10-10T17:18:06","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T17:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/litci.org\/en\/?p=10527"},"modified":"2018-10-10T17:18:06","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T17:18:06","slug":"national-elections-show-dissatisfaction-among-brazilians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/litci.org\/en\/national-elections-show-dissatisfaction-among-brazilians\/","title":{"rendered":"National Elections Show Dissatisfaction Among Brazilians"},"content":{"rendered":"

National elections were held in Brazil on October 7,2018.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

117 out of 147 million Brazilians entitled to vote took part in the elections.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

49 million voted for far-rightwing Jair Bolsonaro.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

By CSP-Conlutas Communication Workgroup<\/p>\n

He was followed by 31-million votes candidate Fernando Haddad who replaced former president Lula da Silva as the later was prevented from running due to a 12-year sentence in jail on corruption and money laundering charges.<\/span><\/p>\n

Both will run in a second-round runoff on October 28, 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n

Both candidates share a neoliberal austerity-oriented agenda.<\/span><\/p>\n

That is why eight labor federations met on October 2, 2018 and decided to call the workers to go on a general strike against the social security reform as soon as it is announced.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nevertheless, there are differences between them.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fernando Haddad commits itself to revive Lula da Silva administration policies which prioritize big business along with some policies to the poor like the famous \u201cBolsa Familia\u201d (Family Allowance).<\/span><\/p>\n

Jair Bolsonaro wants to revive the policies of the dreadful military dictatorship which ruled the country from 1964 until 1984. His hero is a famous Brazilian torturer called Colonel Brilhante Ustra.<\/span><\/p>\n

Infamous Stephen Bannon, former adviser for Donald Trump together with key army generals are behind his extremely law-and-order, racist, xenophobic, homophobic and misogynist platform.<\/span><\/p>\n

In order to oppose that platform around one million feminist women and like-minded men took the streets of one hundred cities on September 29, 2018 launching the movement called #elen\u00e3o. It is interesting to take notice of the presence of Palestinian banners in the demonstration taken by \u201cPalestinians Against Bolsonaro\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

Affected by a 3-year recession, a major of the Brazilian workers are deeply disillusioned with mainstream politicians.<\/span><\/p>\n

20 million did not vote. Another 10 million voted null or blank. Half of the incumbent Member of Parliament were not reelected in a major renewal move for Brazilian parliament.<\/span><\/p>\n

Unfortunately the bulk of these dissatisfied Brazilians voted for Jair Bolsonaro in spite of the fact that they do not share Bolsonaro\u00b4s authoritarian and austerity-oriented perspectives. Then the divorce between Bolsonaro and his electorate might happen soon in case he is elected.<\/span><\/p>\n

CSP-Conlutas leadership will meet this week to take a stand on the elections.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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