Once this begins, politicians will need to do their best to keep the flame of an electoral campaign burning, the anticipation of which does not mobilize the majority of the population. Disinterest that tends to deepen over the next few weeks.
The tournament ends on July 19th, the day before the start of the tournament, which must have the majority and proportional candidacies defined by August 5th.
Candidates for president, governors, senator and deputy will not stand still. They will try to fill time, occupy space, compete for the news and will certainly do so using references and allusions to football, no matter how forced and artificial they may seem to fans.
A recurring theme since 1994, when our presidential elections began to coincide with the World Cup, will probably return to the scene: does Brazil’s performance in the championship have an impact on the election results?
The history of these 32 years says no. Political science literature records this type of connection in authoritarian regimes. We saw here the dictator’s connection with the euphoria of winning the tri in 1970, but in the dark times there were no elections.
The tetra came in the same year of 1994 in which government candidate Itamar Franco won in the first round, but the merit went to Plano Real. Four years later, FH repeated the feat, with Brazil losing the final to France.
Having won the penta in 2002, the government did not choose a successor and lost to PT member Luiz Inácio da Silva, who was re-elected in 2006, with the team being defeated in the quarter-finals.
In 2010, Brazil was eliminated again in the same phase and Lula elected Dilma Rousseff, who was re-elected despite the embarrassment of 7-1 in 2014 in the World Cup at home.
In 2018, the country fell again in the quarterfinals, the Michel Temer government was not in the race and in 2022 the World Cup in Qatar took place at the end of the year, after Lula’s election in October.
Despite what has been demonstrated, the topic will be discussed again.
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