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Say there: What a name from the right, today, even absent and handcuffed at home to an electronic anklet, would be able to gather at Avenida Paulista 37,600 people to ask the court to acquit him and allow his candidacy for president in the next elections?
Tarcísio de Freitas, who lacked the demonstration to undergo a medical procedure without any urgency, instead of remarking him to revere who elected him governor of Sao Paulo? Tarcisio can be a good administrator, but political, no.
Would Romeu Zema, governor of Minas Gerais, gather a similar crowd before the Freedom Palace or any other point in Belo Horizonte? And Ronaldo Caiado, Governor of Goiás? And Ratinho Junior, governor of Paraná? This, maybe it would gather.
The audience who attended Paulista Avenue yesterday was three times larger than the last to hit the same place on June 29. True, it was smaller than April 7 (44,900). And much smaller than February 25, 2024 (185 thousand).
Also could. Only in November 2024, the Federal Police indicted Bolsonaro and 34 people for attempted coup and criminal organization. And only in February this year, the Attorney General’s Office denounced them.
The complaint was accepted by the Federal Supreme Court and will only complete three months the day after tomorrow. The process runs fast, but within the legal deadlines. There is plenty of evidence to condemn Bolsonaro. Only your followers refuse to see.
There are those who see and don’t care. And those who were in favor of the coup and continue to be. These are these, especially these, and the fierce antipetistas who are still willing to fill the streets with each call of Bolsonaro or their spokesmen. A lot of people.
Another question arising from the first: Why should Bolsonaro, even if convicted, hurry to support another name to Lula’s succession? Not that the amnesty cherished by him is possible. If approved by Congress, the Supreme would overthrow it.
It turns out that if Bolsonaro chooses the heir to his votes early, he will be born grass at the door of his arrest site and he will lose relevance. The opposite can be true: the more it takes the new right leader to anoint, the more Bolsonaro will increase his cliff.
The presidential election of 2026 will be in the shadow of Bolsonaro, like this or not. The civilized right, which in 2018 voted for him, doesn’t like it. Lula, at least so far, is enjoying it.
