They say that a week is a long time in politics, and the () campaign is here to prove that this is very current.
Let’s remember how the senator’s candidacy was on Wednesday last week (13), before the revelation of the
Flavio appeared tied in the polls with Lula, and even appeared numerically ahead in some of them. He traveled the country gaining support and launching candidacies from allies. And it took advantage of the wear and tear of the current government. Some even started to think that he could win in the first round.
But then came the bombshell of the very close relationship with Vorcaro, and what was a positive trend turned into a game of seven mistakes.
If the conversation to ask for money for a film was bad enough, the way Flávio handled the revelation was even worse.
Instead of adopting total transparency, as common sense would recommend, he omitted the details of his relationship with the banker.
Let’s remember that Flávio had said that he had never met him. Things got worse when the
The fate of the millionaire resources that would have been paid by the owner of the Master also had an endless back and forth of versions. The suspicion is that at least part of it was used to pay for his brother Eduardo Bolsonaro’s expenses in the United States.
In a few days, therefore, Flávio embarked on a sequence of bad news that could make his candidacy unfeasible. This Wednesday, he changed the marketer, as if the fault lay solely with his communications team, and not him.
Flavio has lost support among segments that are the basis of Bolsonarism, such as agribusiness and evangelicals. With the change in the scenario, other parties began to see the crisis as an opportunity to test candidacies, such as those of federal deputy Aécio Neves.
Flávio still has a window to try to survive, but it is narrow. The next polls will show whether the drop in voting intentions that everyone predicts will be something manageable, or a more serious meltdown. And based on this, an analysis will be made about the future of the candidacy.
The first step for him, however, is to stop making mistakes. But that penny seems to have not yet sunk in for the candidate.
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