"Order and Progress" is written on the Brazilian flag.

That was also the slogan of President Jair Bolsonaro, who was voted out of office.

However, he never lived up to that.

It had long been feared that Brazil could face an event similar to that in the United States, where an angry mob stormed the Capitol on January 6 two years ago.

Donald Trump's supporters did not want to accept his election defeat and were encouraged by their idol.

It's the same in Brazil.

Trump was a role model for Bolsonaro.

He sowed doubts about the electronic voting system early on.

If the election doesn't go smoothly, the military can always intervene, he said.

These weren't empty threats.

This could already be seen in 2021, when Bolsonaro, as part of a military parade, drove tanks into the Square of the Three Powers in Brasília, where the Presidential Palace, the Supreme Court and the Congress are located.

At that time, MPs were debating the same electoral system.

Brazil's institutions have so far proven to be steadfast

During the election campaign, Bolsonaro made it clear that he would only recognize an election victory, his election victory.

In the second ballot, however, he was defeated by his challenger Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva with 49.1 to 50.9 percent of the votes.

Given the history, it was almost a surprise that Bolsonaro did not attempt a coup.

However, he did not say a word about his defeat.

Like Trump, he was also absent from the handover ceremony for his successor.

Instead, he fled to Florida.

In his four years as president, Bolsonaro has verbally attacked democracy on an almost daily basis.

These words were now followed by deeds by his fanatical followers.

At the same time, he presents himself as a law enforcement officer: demonstrations should not disturb order, says Bolsonaro.

But he has stormed Congress, the Supreme Court and the Presidential Palace.

Bolsonaro repeatedly glorified the time of the military dictatorship and celebrated the day of the 1964 military coup every year before he took office.

Bolsonaro's radical supporters have also pinned their hopes on the military.

This explains why some of them erupted in jubilation when soldiers appeared at the congress on Sunday.

But they did not come to enable them to dream of a dictatorship, but to arrest them.

Brazil's institutions have so far proven to be steadfast.

“Brazil takes off” was the title of an international magazine, illustrated with the statue of Christ in Rio de Janeiro, which flies towards the sky like a rocket.

Hard to believe that this was only fourteen years ago.

At that time, Brazil was seen as the coming economic power.

But the boom in raw materials dried up, followed by protests about the soccer World Cup and a major corruption scandal that paved the way for Bolsonaro to get into the presidential palace because he knew how to use the resentment to his advantage.

But what Bolsonaro leaves behind is not order and progress, but chaos and regression.