RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro says he has tested negative for the coronavirus twice, but many, adding a federal judge, don’t find it easy to get him percentage of the actual results. However, the leader refused.
The surreal confrontation is the newest flashpoint in a larger war between a president who has tested the limits of his strength and democratic institutions. Some worry that Bolsonaro’s pushback could cause a constitutional crisis.
Bolsonaro has always downplayed the coronavirus pandemic and harshly criticized efforts by governors and mayors to impose measures on the spread of the virus, and instead advocates for most people to return to work.
But the courts have continually limited him, on this and other issues: they ruled that governors and possibly would have the strength to close measures, rescinded the presidential decree allowing devout gatherings, sought to force the publication of his covid-19 check to end the hypothesis that he possibly lied, and recently annulled his selection for the position of director of the federal police.
Bolsonaro’s supporters have denounced those decisions as a plot to derail his presidency, and the president himself says he is the victim of interference from obstructionist judges.
We will allow more interference!” said Bolsonaro on Sunday. Patience is exhausted. We will move Brazil forward.
Analysts say the court rulings impose restrictions on a populist who tests democratic guarantees and has shown he is afraid to wage his legal battles in the streets when he is satisfied with the courts.
Bolsonaro and his base have criticized the courts for restricting their power. For example, they denounced a judge’s recent ruling to block the appointment of a new federal police chief, which many noted as too close to the Bolsonaro family.
Even some critics, former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, say the Supreme Court overstepped in the case.
The court also approved an investigation into whether the appointment constituted illegal political interference.
The fight over the effects of his coronavirus test produced a special chapter. Concerns about Bolsonaro’s fitness began in March, when the president returned from the United States, and local media reported in the following weeks that more than a dozen members of his delegation had tested positive. by the coronavirus.
Unconfirmed initial reports indicated that Bolsonaro himself had tested positive, then announced on social media that his effects had turned negative. He refused to produce the document himself, bringing up medical confidentiality.
Last week, a federal ruling in São Paulo ordered Bolsonaro to hand over the effects in response to a request from the newspaper O Estado de S. Bolsonaro’s attorney general sent instead a summary of the findings, the office said in a statement. The pass the trial on the back insisted on the real effects, and a separate trial on Saturday gave Bolsonaro’s team five days to comply.
Bolsonaro has also blurred the waters more recently. Following the lawsuit, he claimed last week to have “maybe” the virus without knowing it.
Meanwhile, Bolsonaro continued to look like a mask in public, addressing the crowd and shaking hands with his supporters, on one occasion, after wiping his nose.
Bolsonaro’s help within a central base has long seemed almost unwavering. While a positive end result doesn’t call that into question, it will most likely erode aid from moderates, the component of other people who are hardliners but think their policies are reasonable, Lucas said. de Aragão, a component of Brasilia-based consulting firm Arko Advice.
“All this creates an environment of institutional crisis,” said Carlos Melo, a political science professor at São Paulo’s Insper University. “Constitutional crises are confusing because when establishments no longer have controversies or conflicts, who does?The use of force?
As the political and economic crisis stemming from the pandemic deepens in Brazil, Bolsonaro could try to further discredit democratic institutions, looking for someone to blame for weathering the storm, analysts said.
“That’s why he denigrates governors and the judiciary,” de Aragão said. “The Bolsonaro government and its most influential supporters are on the hunt for a common enemy, because it creates a sense of network among supporters. “
You can already notice some of this. Over the weekend, Bolsonaro’s core base turned the #GolpeDeLaCorteSuprema trending hashtag on Twitter in Brazil. Meanwhile, in the capital Brasilia on Sunday, protesters shouted slogans such as: “Attention, judges, your dresses in handcuffs. “
“We need our president to be to govern,” Bia Kicis, a lawmaker who gave the impression alongside Bolsonaro on Sunday, said in a live broadcast on the president’s Facebook page. “Our other people will not let the (Supreme Court) justices, with the stroke of a pen, save our president from governing!”
Experts said the president is playing a damaging game by waging his legal battles in the streets. “Why not appeal?Why go to the street?” asked Melo. “This is populism. It does not perceive the constitutional appeal procedure in the country. “
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