Let’s wait for the next ones to see if the first ones after the disastrous event showed a trend or if they just captured a bad moment for the government.
Be that as it may, one fact is unquestionable: Luiz Inácio da Silva (PT) has lost his unbeatable aura and could lose his place as favorite normally reserved for those in power. Broken writing in the defeat of , in 2022, and a sign that the re-election institute does not have a guaranteed success rate.
It is too early to make definitive findings, but the scenario brings back the question about the president’s permanence in the race, a doubt he dismissed after his opponents’ mistakes in the tax environment gave him the chance to recover.
The opportunity may or may not have been lost in the wake of the outrage in Sapucaí. There was indeed a waste there, the extent of which is yet to be demonstrated, depending on several factors, the main one being the behavior of .
He’s good at coming back, but he has an enemy in his inflated ego. Excessive self-confidence is harmful to analyzing the situation and encourages self-deception. The president has an image of himself that is not the same as that projected in the lenses of half the population.
Had he not lived under the illusion of almost unanimity years ago, Lula would have had at least some suspicion that the candidate and the president should play separately in the transgressive environment of Carnival.
Before that, the assumption that he is above criticism had already led the president to act contrary to the law, which prohibits the ruler from using the State apparatus, public assets, in favor of individual interests. In this case, electoral. The parade episode drew attention to what until then had been treated on the basis of deliberate blindness and also contradicted sectors that needed to be conquered.
Result: he moved back places on the voting intention scale and gave way to his opponent. Just because I thought it was stifling and, as we can see, that’s not the case.
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