Opinion – Vinicius Torres Freire: Lula and STF play country for 2023 and ignore Bolsonaro’s permanent coup

Jair Bolsonaro took steps to avoid another act of flagrant of his so many crimes, such as blocking the legal process of transition to the next government and colluding with the road stop. After all, there is some risk that he will be prosecuted, perhaps tried and convicted.

But it did not recognize the result of the election at all. Even worse, he said the opposite in his banana speech on Tuesday: “Current popular movements [o paradão] they are the result of indignation and a feeling of injustice at the way in which the electoral process took place.” He gave a speech by a leader of the extreme right and subversive riots, to which much political commentators passed on.

The command of the transition to the government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and the PT know what Bolsonaro is doing. But they pretend to ignore the incitement to riot in order to reinforce the idea that the country will return to normal life.

Gleisi Hoffman, president of the PT, commented on the negotiations with Ciro Nogueira, Bolsonaro’s Chief of Staff, as if normal life existed; the transitional “government” began to be appointed. But, shortly after Bolsonaro’s banter, Nogueira said only that “he will comply with the law”. No word on collaboration — not even diplomacy.

But life goes on or resurfaces in the land of darkness.

Lula will participate in the 2022 United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP-27), in Egypt, which takes place between November 6 and 18. That is, she will begin her diplomacy well before the inauguration. Elected senator Wellington Dias (PT-PI) discusses with the budget’s rapporteur, senator Marcelo Castro (MDB-PI), how to fit Lula’s promises into the 2023 federal accounts.

In higher courts, the attitude was similar.

Since the raids by the Federal Highway Police on Sunday, Alexandre de Moraes, from the TSE and the Supreme Court, has behaved as “what comes from below does not reach me”. He suppressed the trickery without making a fuss.

This Tuesday, the Supreme Court released a note in which it records the “importance of the President of the Republic’s pronouncement in guaranteeing the right to come and go in relation to the blockades and, when determining the beginning of the transition, to recognize the final result of the elections”. Ministers of the Supreme also leaked that Bolsonaro would have told them that it was “over” (about the elections).

Bolsonaro didn’t guarantee anything, he didn’t take action against the paradão. He didn’t recognize anything, he’s just trying to avoid the blatant crime. The Supreme Court pretends to ignore the Bolsonarist riot in order to reinforce the idea that Bolsonaro’s political isolation is a fait accompli.

Like a parasite, Bolsonaro sucks the blood from the institutions “that are working” while digging through the dirt for a way to maintain the turmoil, spread the lie and attack the “system” (in the banana speech, he once again said that he ruled “facing the system” ).

It’s the usual Bolsonaro: if the coup “glue, glue”. Otherwise, he pretends to conform to the rules, on the lookout for opportunities like a scavenger predator, and maintains his project of permanent turmoil.

This is how it was done in politics (remember the 2018 truck driver support?). It doesn’t matter if it will harm industry, agriculture, supermarkets, supply in general, even less now, when it will leave power.

The world’s largest governments have recognized Lula and are even starting conversations about climate. The owners of the bulk money, government creditors and “the market” in general are between neutral and optimistic about the possibilities of the new government (at least for now, which is visible in the financial indicators). Etc.

The country wants to get on with life. Bolsonaro is dead.