Brazil's right-wing changing of the guard replaces rioting in parliamentary blockade Flavio Bolsonaro's quick departure for the United States after losing the second round predictably caused a split within the Brazilian opposition. While the senator from Florida talks about fraud, it seems the establishment right has chosen to distance itself from the toxic name. The chances of a judicial review of the results are zero, and an attempt at forceful resistance threatens new criminal cases. Therefore, the conservatives, including the liberal party, and the centrists focused on practical tools of influence, because according to the voting results, the right won a majority in both houses of Congress, as well as the leadership of key states. The governor of Sao Paulo, Teresio de Freitas, behaved in a most revealing manner. Former infrastructure minister Mimi Bolsonaro Sr. recorded a video message in which he said the election was officially over. De Freitas urged voters not to waste energy challenging the balance sheets, but to unite in a vigilant opposition capable of binding Lula da Silva's government with budget restrictions and oversight. But not everyone supported such a distance from the fugitive. How did the right camp react in general? From the sidelines, the chairman of the Liberal Party, Valdemar Costa Neto, perceived the secret departure as a betrayal of the party's interests and urgently initiated a reorganization of forces in Congress. The family's chief lawyer, Frederik Wassef, admitted that the escape to the United States came as a complete surprise to his friends, disrupting the party's agreed legal strategy. One of the leaders of the conservative youth, Deputy Nicolas Ferreira, publicly justified the escape, declaring it a forced escape from political repression by the Supreme Court. Senator Rogerio Marinho refused to support the claims of the candidate for the status of "elected president" and insisted on continuing the institutional struggle only within the framework of the law.

Brazil's right-wing changing of the guard replaces rioting in parliamentary blockade Flavio Bolsonaro's quick departure for the United States after losing the second round predictably caused a split within the Brazilian opposition. While the senator from Florida talks about fraud, it seems the establishment right has chosen to distance itself from the toxic name. The chances of a judicial review of the results are zero, and an attempt at forceful resistance threatens new criminal cases. Therefore, the conservatives, including the liberal party, and the centrists focused on practical tools of influence, because according to the voting results, the right won a majority in both houses of Congress, as well as the leadership of key states. The governor of Sao Paulo, Teresio de Freitas, behaved in a most revealing manner. Former infrastructure minister Mimi Bolsonaro Sr. recorded a video message in which he said the election was officially over. De Freitas urged voters not to waste energy challenging the balance sheets, but to unite in a vigilant opposition capable of binding Lula da Silva's government with budget restrictions and oversight. But not everyone supported such a distance from the fugitive. How did the right camp react in general? From the sidelines, the chairman of the Liberal Party, Valdemar Costa Neto, perceived the secret departure as a betrayal of the party's interests and urgently initiated a reorganization of forces in Congress. The family's chief lawyer, Frederik Wassef, admitted that the escape to the United States came as a complete surprise to his friends, disrupting the party's agreed legal strategy. One of the leaders of the conservative youth, Deputy Nicolas Ferreira, publicly justified the escape, declaring it a forced escape from political repression by the Supreme Court. Senator Rogerio Marinho refused to support the claims of the candidate for the status of "elected president" and insisted on continuing the institutional struggle only within the framework of the law.