- Datum: 10.03.2021
- Country:Brazil
- Category:Berichte & Analysen
Brazilian Democracy Is Holding Up — But the Biggest Test Will Come in 2022
“While the risk of a Fujimori-style self-coup seems limited at this stage, there are eerie parallels to the slow erosion of democracy in…
“While the risk of a Fujimori-style self-coup seems limited at this stage, there are eerie parallels to the slow erosion of democracy in neighboring Venezuela over the past two decades. Bolsonaro’s tendency to fill his cabinet and other strategic posts with generals has led Brazilian observers to refer to the government as bolsochavista. While an electoral victory by a — yet-undefined — broad democratic alliance in 2022 could assure that Bolsonaro goes down in history as a brief but ultimately manageable threat to Brazil’s democracy, his reelection could pose a far more serious problem. After all, elected authoritarians, as seen in Venezuela, the Philippines and Hungary, usually start implementing more radical anti-democratic reforms after winning reelection“, says Oliver Stuenkel, a contributing columnist for Americas Quarterly and a teacher for International Relations at the Getulio Vargas Foundation in São Paulo. He is the author of The BRICS and the Future of Global Order (2015) and Post-Western World: How Emerging Powers Are Remaking Global Order (2016).