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General Category => World News => Topic started by: TomSea on November 07, 2018, 08:55:17 pm
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Washington Post (excerpted):
Brazil is unpredictable right now. Here are 3 possible scenarios for incoming president Jair Bolsonaro.
By Ryan Lloyd November 7
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1. Disaster for Bolsonaro
Bolsonaro, who comes from outside Brazil’s two main parties, the PT and the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB), is in a fragile position. The legislature’s fragmentation is at historic highs, with 30 parties elected to the Chamber of Deputies (for a whopping effective number of parties score of 16.4). Bolsonaro’s Social Liberal Party (PSL) has the second-highest number of seats in the Chamber of Deputies but just 10 percent of the total representation. And the PSL is made up of political rookies, which could make it difficult for Bolsonaro to navigate the peculiarities of Congress. A similar situation ended up sinking Brazil’s first president after re-democratization, Fernando Collor de Mello, on Sept. 29, 1992.
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2. Success for Bolsonaro
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3. Partial reform and polarization
Article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/11/07/a-lot-about-brazil-is-unpredictable-right-now-3-scenarios-for-incoming-president-jair-bolsonaro/?utm_term=.8b484f33a299 (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/11/07/a-lot-about-brazil-is-unpredictable-right-now-3-scenarios-for-incoming-president-jair-bolsonaro/?utm_term=.8b484f33a299)
Bolsonaro says he cannot save Brazil alone
Brazil's President-elect Jair Bolsonaro said Wednesday that he alone cannot rescue the country from economic hardship and spiralling violent crime, as he met with outgoing head of state Michel Temer and the country's Supreme Court chief.
Brazil's President-elect Jair Bolsonaro said Wednesday that he alone cannot rescue the country from economic hardship and spiralling violent crime, as he met with outgoing head of state Michel Temer and the country's Supreme Court chief.
"No single person is going to save our country," Bolsonaro -- who takes office on January 1 -- said on the second day of a visit to the capital Brasilia, where he met Temer for the first time since the election.
Read more at: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/bolsonaro-says-he-cannot-save-brazil-alone/ar-BBPsgz8 (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/bolsonaro-says-he-cannot-save-brazil-alone/ar-BBPsgz8)