Good morning! Today, we talk about the continuing putschist push by the Bolsonaro camp. The double downgrade of Petrobras. The budgetary knot. And a flag incident in Qatar.
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Investing in putschism
The 2022 election shattered many postulates in Brazilian politics. The latest of them was that pragmatism would prevail within Jair Bolsonaro’s Liberal Party — which opportunistically housed the president before the election, a move that helped it obtain the biggest benches in both congressional houses.
- But on Tuesday the party went head-on into putschist tactics, publishing a “study” claiming that almost 60 percent of electronic voting machines were faulty and need to be removed from the official count.
What they are saying. A petition by the Liberal Party claims that issues with the identification number of voting machines would prevent them from being properly tallied, allegations which have been dismissed by experts. If these machines were tossed, then Mr. Bolsonaro would conveniently have won the election with 51.05 percent of valid votes.
Playing both sides. Valdemar Costa Neto, the party’s...