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Weekly Report - 19 September 2024 (WR-24-37)
BRAZIL: The ‘Marçal effect’ in São Paulo mayoral race
In August and September, when national broadcasters began holding debates between candidates running for the mayorship of Brazil’s largest city, São Paulo, political pundits suggested that the quality of political discourse had deteriorated due to the presence of the brash, confrontational, far-right populist candidate Pablo Marçal. In a televised debate on 15 September, tensions rose between Marçal and another candidate, José Luiz Datena, resulting in Datena physically assaulting Marçal, plunging the debate into chaos and prompting widespread condemnation among the media of the candidates’ behaviour.
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