It wasn’t all good news in last Sunday’s elections for President Jair Bolsonaro’s large family where many relatives have public functions as legislators and others have claimed them.
Among the former is one of the most influential sons of the three of the head of state, Eduardo Bolsonaro. Deputy of the State of Sao Paulo for his father’s Liberal Party, which was renovating his headquarters, the voters did not leave him out of the district but they cut no less than 1.1 million of votes by comparing the results with the harvest in 2018.
Eduardo Bolsonaro reached his third term with 741,000 votes. But four years ago he was the most voted candidate in the country’s history, with 1.84 million votes. The lost difference is now interesting information regarding the behavior of voters in the most populous and richest state of Brazil.
He was surpassed in the record of voters by Ghilherme Boulos, a newcomer in the parliamentary race but not of the right but of the political center-left,
He was appointed by the PSOL, Socialism and Freedom Party, a detachment of the PT by Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who broke with that force during the governments of the former metal worker by rejecting the moderate line that the party had adopted.
Bolsonaro finished third, behind the co-religious Carla Zambelli, with 946,000 votes.
This legislator was the only one of the president’s children to stand for election. His brother, Flavio Bolsonaro, of the same party in Rio de Janeiro, is currently serving a sent as a senator for that state until 2026.
In Rio, former footballer Romario, also from the ruling Liberal Party, was re-elected to fill the only disputed vacancy. In addition to them, the third son, Carlos Bolsonaro (Republicans-RJ, allied party of the PL) is councilor in Rio de Janeiro.
Eduardo Bolsonaro is known for his self-confidence in the networks, particularly for the use of his Tweets to mistreat the region’s politicians, and has repeatedly targeted Argentina’s foreign minister Santiago Cafiero.
The deputy has a very fluid relationship with the family of former President Donald Trump and is currently the representative for Latin America of the so-called The Movement. He’s a far-right confederation founded by Steve Bannon, ultranationalist advisor of the tycoon and in which the Italian Matteo Salvini and the Hungarian premier Viktor Orban participate.
Sunday’s polls weren’t very friendly even with other close aides of the president. The lawyer Ana Cristina Valle, former wife of Jair Bolsonaro, the entrepreneur Leonardo Rodríguez, nephew of the president, and the photographer Eduardo Torres, Bolsonaro’s brother-in-law, they were not elected for the Legislative Chamber for the Federal District.
The woman even campaigned with no luck using the surname Bolsonaro. Torres, meanwhile, had had the support of the president’s current wife, Michelle, who had appeared with him in various acts. The candidate only got 16,990 votes for the Liberal Party. Even in 2018 he was not successful.
Special correspondent from Brasilia
Source: Clarin
