Brazil: "Bolsonaro mobilizes his troops to move towards a breach of legality"
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Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro greets his supporters in front of the presidential palace in Brasilia, September 6, 2021. AP - Eraldo Peres
By: Gaëtan Plenet
6 mins
Brazil is preparing for major events on Tuesday, on the occasion of its National Day.
A party that promises to be tense due to gatherings, deemed to be at risk, in hundreds of cities across the country.
President Bolsonaro, whom his tumble in the polls pushes to remobilize his base, promised that “
gigantic
”
crowds
would come to support him.
His opponents will also take to the streets, worried about the threats posed to democracy by the far-right president, who opened a serious institutional crisis by declaring war on the Supreme Court.
The decryption of the historian Maud Chirio, lecturer at the University Gustave Eiffel.
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Maud Chirio is the author of
Politics in Uniform, the Brazilian Experience (1960-1980)
, at the Presses Universitaires de Rennes.
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