How should voters, press and parties treat Bolsonaro? – 7/4/2023 – Bruno Boghossian

The trial at the TSE had not even ended, but Jair Bolsonaro was already a repeat offender. In an improvised interview, the ex-president once again fed false suspicions about the polls and repeated the deception that the January 8 attacks were “a big set-up”. When he started campaigning against vaccines, CNN cut the broadcast.

Hours later, that same Friday (30), Bolsonaro went further. In another interview, he recycled conspiracy theories about the investigations into the stabbing he suffered and about the 2018 elections.

Bolsonaro will remain the same political actor who was condemned for attacks on democracy. The ban on running for elections does not exclude the former president from public life, and he will press every button at his disposal to maintain influence with his base.

TSE’s punishment should make politicians, voters and the press treat this character differently. In the chair of president or in the role of candidate, Bolsonaro attracted the spotlight for the power he had in his hands, for the prospect of obtaining it or for the flammable potential of his statements.

Now, he cannot be ignored, but it would be more than healthy to apply a policy of zero tolerance for his continued anti-democratic insinuations and other nonsense, calibrate his space in the public debate and carefully measure the title of “luxury electoral corporal” that the former president bestowed upon himself.

For now, candidates who sell themselves as moderates continue to chase Bolsonaro’s support, political groups use his voice to make a stand on issues he never cared about (such as tax reform), and much of his disinformation show circulates. without due objection.

Bolsonaro was punished for a serious violation of the rules of democracy. Treating him like any other politician should not be an option.

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