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January 13, 2023

Does the Far-Right Threaten Brazil’s Democratic System?

Thousands of supporters or former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro invaded the buildings housing the country’s Congress and Supreme Court, as well as the presidential palace last Sunday. // Photo: Agência Brasil

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  • Authorities have arrested some 1,500 people following Sunday’s riot in Brazil in which supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro broke into the buildings housing the country’s Congress and Supreme Court as well as the presidential palace. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva called the rioters “fanatic fascists” and vowed to punish anyone involved. Also, a Supreme Court justice has issued arrest warrants for two top officials responsible for security in Brasília. How well is Lula handling the aftermath of the riot, and how will it affect his government and agenda? How much of a threat do the far-right forces involved threaten Brazil’s democratic system, and what should be done to strengthen it? How much has the riot strengthened—or weakened—Bolsonaro and his political party?

A

Alfredo Attié, justice at the Supreme Court of São Paulo: “It was the Brazil of the past that invaded the government houses in Praça dos Três Poderes, not coincidentally, seven days after the inauguration of a president who has promised the recovery of the government’s commitment to the constitution, and who entered the presidential house at his inauguration alongside representatives of the diversity of the Brazilian people. This Brazil of the past intended to invade the country’s civic centers and corrupt its aesthetic identity, just as it had already illegitimately usurped the symbols of the nation—the flag, the yellow soccer jersey—as a reaction to the empowerment and election of diversity. One of the criminal invaders spoke of repossession, as if claiming that Brazil belonged to that invading and criminal minority. This call from the past reminds us that…”

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