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Brazil: A year of Jair Bolsonaro
Attempts at implementing legislation
A reflection of this unclear programme, legislation has been slow to follow the campaign promises. Bolsonaro has been pushing for the introduction of more flexible gun laws, so far without success; justice & public security minister Moro presented a package of bills seeking to target both crime and corruption to congress in February. A heavily modified version of this legislative package was finally approved in December.
- 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