Brazil: in view of 2022, Bolsonaro is negotiating his admission to a far-right party

MADRID.- The President of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, today meets with members of the political council of the Patriota, a far-right party, to which the conservative leader intends to join to attend the presidential elections of 2022.

Patriota, a split from the Social-Christian Party, would be the tenth formation, in its three decades in Brazilian politics, in which Bolsonaro would militarize, currently without a party after leaving the ranks of the Social Liberal Party (PSL), a year after joining it to run for the 2018 elections.

On this occasion, the confrontations of the Brazilian president with the leader of the PSL, Luciano Bivar, ended up making the situation untenable between the various factions of the formation, Bolsonaro even telling the affiliates that they “would forget” the party.

Today’s meeting with the Patriota party was confirmed by its leader, Adilson Barroso, who admitted that in recent months the rapprochement between Bolsonaro and the formation has tightened, thus ruling out in principle the other option, also the Conservative Brazilian Labor Party (PLB).

In recent months, Bolsonaro has not hidden his “infatuation” for Patriota, whose control the Brazilian press speculates, he would intend to assume with his trusted staff. A thesis which takes shape after Barroso himself declared that he had not been “invited” to this meeting.

Brazil will hold new presidential elections in 2022 in which Bolsonaro will have, pending his candidacy, the governor of São Paulo, Joao Doria, of the Brazilian Social Democratic Party (PSDB), his biggest rival for re-election.

DPA Agency

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