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Brazil: A year of Jair Bolsonaro
Redrawing relations with congress
As well as heading a largely inexperienced cabinet and involving his sons in state affairs, Bolsonaro has worked on altering the executive’s relationship with congress. Brazilian heads of state have traditionally governed through a ‘coalition presidency’, forging alliances at congressional level with loosely aligned parties. A combination of lack of experience and of a desire to do things differently means that Bolsonaro’s government has disdained to do this and does not have a guaranteed support base in congress.
- A new era in Brazilian politics
- The 2018 election
- Bolsonaro's inner circle
- Redrawing relations with congress
- A neo-liberal agenda
- An ambitious reform programme
- Concessions and privatisations
- Encouraging results
- A new way of doing politics
- Moro and Lava Jato
- The independence of institutions
- Scandals
- Tough-on-crime talk
- Attempts at implementing legislation
- Falling crime rates
- 'Brazil above everything, God above all'
- The crusade against 'cultural Marxism'
- Rhetoric has consequences
- The economy and security remain the key to re-election hopes