:format(jpg):focal(1275x858:1285x848):watermark(cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/ipmgroup/5IDEBLR7ERC5TMAPLOHS63MVNM.png,0,30,0)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/ipmgroup/LRE6VUQSE5AVDJCYZS2NTCIL4A.jpg "Brazil: Bolsonaro joins the Liberal Party, a year before the presidential election")
For the far-right president, this is the 9th affiliation to a political party, a practice, however, relatively common in Brazil where the Parliament is atomized into around thirty parties.
“The affiliation is a simple event, but of great importance”, declared the head of state during a ceremony organized in a large hotel in Brasilia in the presence of hundreds of political personalities, but without the press.
Bolsonaro was without a party since he broke two years ago with the one under whose banner he was easily elected at the end of 2018, the small Liberal Social Party (PSL). He cannot run again next year without political affiliation.
But less than a year before the presidential election, the situation has completely changed for the 66-year-old leader: his popularity rating has never been so low.
It fell to 22%, under the effect of its management considered calamitous of the crisis of the covid-19 which made nearly 615,000 deaths in Brazil and high levels of inflation and unemployment.
In addition, the president is targeted by a hundred requests for dismissal and under the scope of five investigations by the Supreme Court and electoral justice.
While there are already many signs of an entry into the campaign, former Bolsonaro president and black beast Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (2003-2010) is not expected to declare himself until the first quarter of 2022.
The historic leader of the Brazilian left, 76, returns from a tour of Europe where he was received by French President Emmanuel Macron, the head of the Spanish government and the future German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
With 43 deputies out of 513 and four senators out of 81, the PL is one of the main parties of the “centrao”, an informal block of right-wing and center formations which monetize their support according to the advantages they derive from it, and politics in Brazil.
Bolsonaro has come very close to the “centrao” in recent months, having been elected as an “anti-system” candidate ready to do away with “old political practices”, corruption in mind.
But this alliance should guarantee Bolsonaro to be able to carry out his mandate to its end, December 2022, the requests for impeachment should not succeed.
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