Wednesday, August 12, 2020

Brazil’s political and institutional clash explained

Recommendable!



My hunch is that Bolsonaro is experiencing something similar to Trump! Powerful domestic opposition forces try to get rid of Bolsonaro at all costs and by all means!



"... As political scientists ... point out ..., Brazil’s electoral system, featuring a plethora of ideologically amorphous parties and thus weak party identification, often engenders divergent constituencies and motivations for the choice of legislative and executive powers. This has led several presidents in Brazil’s democratic era to engage in corruption to hold together multi-party congressional coalitions, or even to seek extralegal solutions to the challenge of governing and transforming the country. ..."



Brazil’s political and institutional clash explained | American Enterprise Institute - AEI

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