The defeated former president spent years sowing mistrust in the country’s democratic institutions, stoking the anger that drove followers to riot in Brasília. The radicalization could challenge the government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
BRASÍLIA — The shocking assault by thousands of right-wing zealots on Brazil’s federal government has set up a test for the country’s conservatives — one that’s forcing some of its most influential figures into the kind of political contortions familiar to American Republicans in the aftermath of theMany ardent backers of right-wing former president Jair Bolsonaro, who has refused to concede his October election loss, remain committed.
Bolsonaro, who left the country before Lula’s inauguration Jan. 1, remains holed up in Florida. He has condemned the violence. Some of Bolsonaro’s more moderate backers have made moves that suggest a tacit acknowledgment that a line was crossed Sunday. Two powerful governors allied with Bolsonaro — Romeu Zema of Minas Gerais and Tarcísio de Freitas of São Paulo — appeared alongside Lula on Monday with other governors and senior officials in a repudiation of the assaults.
Right-wing senator Soraya Thronicke, a former presidential candidate, publicly split from Bolsonaro well before Sunday’s riot. In the aftermath of the assault, she led efforts to launch a parliamentary inquiry commission to investigate the assault, similar to the Jan. 6 committee in the United States.
The problem, he told The Post, is not limited to the police. Bolsonaro filled civilian posts in the executive branch with police and military officers, some of whom appear to remain loyal to him.The most durable challenge for Lula may come from the die-hard bolsonaristas, who are emboldened by the same brand of conspiracy theory that fueled Sunday’s mob.
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