Bolsonaro's Priorities Don't Appeal To Most Brazilians

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Folha Brazil



Datafolha poll shows that a significant part of the population disagrees with the president's main policy proposals

Jan.17.2019 1:31PM
Mauro Paulino e Alessandro Janoni

Results of a national Datafolha poll show suggest a detachment between president Bolsonaro's agenda and Brazilian public opinion.

Even thought Bolsonaro won by a majority of votes and there is an overall positive expectation about his term, voters' positions on some of the proposals announced by either him or his cabinet don't enjoy the same kind of support.

Except for immigrant control and reducing the age of majority, other points in Bolsonaro's agenda like depoliticizing schools, gun law reform and alignment with the United States in foreign policy and trade are condemned by a significant part of the population, with percentages close to 70%.

But other proposals, like reducing land areas destined to indigenous populations, cutting environmental protections, selling state companies to private investors and loss of labor rights, have high disapproval rates.

Read more: https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/brazil/2019/01/bolsonaros-priorities-dont-appeal-to-most-brazilians.shtml?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsen

[Iliyah]

1. And yet he won

[sandensea]

10. But then, who knows.

Bolsonaro's predecessor, the right-wing autocrat Michel Temer, pulled everything under the sun to get him elected - most notably the jailing on trumped-up charges of former President Lula da Silva, whom polls showed would have won in a landslide had he been allowed to run.

As far as the election itself, electronic voting had already been shown to Brazil's Superior Electoral Court in a 2017 hearing to be easily hacked - just as it's been in nearly every country that's tried to introduce it.

So what did Temer do? Double down on them, of course.

Third world kleptocrats have learned well from Bush and Diebold: Vulnerability to fraud isn't a glitch; it's a highly desirable feature.

And best of all, it leaves no trace.

[Polybius]

11. But the polls all showed Bolsonaro would win

He won by about the margin that all the polling companies inside (and outside) Brazil said he would win by. It's unlikely it was hacked this time because there was no need to hack it since he was winning.

[sandensea]

12. Either way, we'll never know.

Electronic tabulation makes doctored results impossible to trace. And in any case polling in Brazil is more art than science:

Most households do not have land lines, and around half don't have mobile phones either. Many communities, moreover, are difficult to access by outsiders due to terrain, a lack of paved streets, etc.

So while the Bolsonaro win may have indeed been legitimate, we certainly don't have anywhere near the kind of certainty one sees in Western Europe or Australia for example.

Least of all from a regime like Temer's, which openly jails the leading opponent to bar him from running.

[sakabatou]

2. You mean electing an authoritarian was a bad idea?

Who would've thought that?!

[Judi Lynn]

3. Majority Of Brazilians Against Reducing Indigenous Reservations

Datafolha poll shows that six in every ten people oppose policies against Native Brazilian territories; Bolsonaro administration promised to revise land grants

Jan.14.2019 11:07AM
Maeli Prado

BRASÍLIA
Six in every 10 Brazilians oppose reducing the area destined to indigenous reservations in the Amazon. The topic is back into the public discussion since January 1st, when president Jair Bolsonaro transferred land assignments from Funai, the Brazilian federal agency for indigenous affairs, to the Ministry of Agriculture.

The number comes from a Datafolha poll that interviewed 2,077 in 130 towns between December 18th and 19th, 2018. The margin of error is two points above or below, considering a confidence interval of 95%.

. . .

The secretariat of land affairs, a newly created agency with the Ministry of Agriculture, is led by Nabhan Garcia, former leader of an association of rural landowners.

Garcia says that the department will "impartially review" all indigenous lands boundaries set in the last ten years, and the government can nullify land grants to indigenous peoples if it finds any flaws in the grant procedures.

More:
https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/brazil/2019/01/majority-of-brazilians-against-reducing-indigenous-reservations.shtml

The "secretariat of land affairs" represents the avaricious, murderous sector of wealthy land grabbers who practise driving people out of their ancestral homes, selling the trees, and using the ground for grazing their cattle. Not a clean action by Bolsonaro, handing control of Native lands over to descendants of the raping, pillaging, brutal invaders.

[MrScorpio]

4. Thoughts and prayers

[Perseus]

5. Due diligence anybody?

So they vote for the guy and now they realize they made the wrong choice? I could have told them that before they voted, and I am not from Brazil...

Same with Mexico, they will be awakening soon, although it may be late...Although I think the drug cartels will not allow Obrador to turn the country into a ruin like Chavez did in Venezuela, unless he is already allied with them.

[Johnyawl]

6. "Except for immigrant control.... "

I fear the entire western world is sliding into authoritarianism because of this issue.

[EleanorR]

7. Disinformation Spreads on WhatsApp Ahead of Brazilian Election

The pre-election disinformation campaign was widespread.

SAN FRANCISCO — Over the past few months, the 120 million Brazilians who use WhatsApp, the smartphone messaging application that is owned by Facebook, have been deluged with political messages

One popular WhatsApp message displayed the name of a presidential candidate, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, next to the number 17. When Brazilians vote, they punch in a number for a candidate or party in an electronic voting machine.

But the information in the photo was wrong. The number 17 was for Mr. Bolsonaro’s party. Mr. da Silva was no longer even in the race. His running mate, Fernando Haddad, had taken his place. Brazil’s top electoral court ruled on Aug. 31 that Mr. da Silva, who is serving a 12-year sentence for corruption, cannot run for a third term.

The misleading message was just one of millions of photos containing disinformation believed to have reached Brazilians in recent months. A study of 100,000 WhatsApp images that were widely shared in Brazil found that more than half contained misleading or flatly false information.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/19/technology/whatsapp-brazil-presidential-election.html

[Firestorm49]

8. But they elected him - just like tRump was elected here. Go figure!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

9. Sounds like another authoritarian