Massive protests against Bolsonaro: demand impeachment at worst moment of popularity

Brazilians today they took to the streets in different parts of the country under the motto “Outside Bolsonaro” (Go out with Bolsonaro) to demand that a political trial is conducted to the current president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, following its management of the pandemic in the neighboring country.

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The popularity of the Brazilian president is at its lowest since his inauguration in early 2019 due to his handling of the coronavirus pandemic which placed Brazil in third place among the countries with the most cases with 19.6 million positive and 548,340 deaths to date. This Saturday there was also a new daily record of contagions with 109,000 new cases.

It is the fourth day of massive mobilizations in the country at the call of left-wing political parties, unions and social movements that they insist with the “impeachment” of your agent, who currently under investigation by the prosecutor for failing to report suspected irregularities in vaccine negotiation against the coronavirus.

they were summoned more than 400 walks across the country and already five state capitals, among which stand out Rio de Janeiro, Recife and Beln, they observed demonstrations in their streets. In the afternoon, demonstrations are expected in other capitals such as St.Paul, generally the area with the most people, and Brasilia.

Protesters, usually dressed in red and wearing chin straps, carried banners reading the classic “Outside of Bolsonaro“ with other expressions like “Out corrupted criminal”, “No one can more and “Revolutions are impossible until they become inevitable,” according to AFP.

The main criticisms of the Brazilian president revolve around the late vaccination campaign against the coronavirus and unemployment increase, in addition to the request of social assistance increase for the most vulnerable sectors.

Other criticisms of Bolsonaro, also reflected in these mobilizations, include anger against his speech in favor of exploitation of the protected areas of the Amazon, their weapons policies in Brazil and privatization program which is already in progress.

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Faced with this, the popularity of the president of the neighboring country is at its lowest since his inauguration: a 24% according to the same polls which indicate that his most powerful rival, the historic former president Lula da silva; with his Workers’ Party (PT), have a good chance of defeat Bolsonaro -who is already aiming for re-election- in the presidential elections of 2022.

Precisely, the PT is today one of the major promoters of the protest in Brazil following the “super impeachment order” that the opposition presented to the Chamber of Deputies at the end of June: This condenses over 20 different charges against Bolsonaro.

However, for now, the president has sufficient support in Congress block these impeachment initiatives: your main ally is Arthur Lira, the president of the Chamber of Deputies, that is to say which should give course to this type of request.