Brazil 2018/2022: A democracy that has become precarious

Abstract

The 2nd of October or the 30th, if necessary, Brazilians elect their federal President. Jair Bolsonaro, outgoing president stand as candidate. For four years, between 2019 and 2022, the Brazilian democracy was hard hit by a lot of Bolsonaro’s initiatives. All the opinion polls since January 2022 predict Lula, former head of state, as winner. Will this possible victory restore democracy to its former condition? Lula has been a law-abiding President, from 2003 to 2010. But his possible victory no guarantees that democracy will be repaired. The Bolsonaro’s years have renewed and rehabilitated the limited democracy used before the military dictatorship time. Before 1964, anniversary of the military coup, in the Empire, in the Old Republic and the Second Republic, the subalterns doesn’t have a say in the Parliament and the Government. The democratic order restored or first created in 1985, had, with Lula in 2022, to confront an opponent, Jair Bolsonaro, and an old order in comeback.