Presidential elections in Brazil

The election to the presidency of the Republic of Brazil is headed for a second round marked by radicalism. The left-wing candidate and the Workers' Party (PT), Fernando Haddad, former Minister of Education of Govern Lula and former mayor of the city of São Paulo, adopted a more radical agenda, which advocates raising taxes for the rich, democratization of the media, fight against the banking monopoly — in Brazil only five banks are responsible for 80% of the country's financial operations.

On the other side is Jair Bolsonaro from the tiny PSL, Partido Liberal Social, adopts an agenda that for many political analysts is far right. According to Celso Rocha de Barros, a doctorate in sociology from the University of Oxford, said on the last day in the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo that Bolsonaro's followers want to do a coup.

Bolsonaro, an ex-military man who has been in Brazilian politics for about 30 years and has been elected federal deputy many times, has spent the last few days adopting a speech that does not recognize the results of the election if not the winner. . His deputy, Colonel Mourão, also ex-military, said that if elected, will make a new constitution without the participation of the population, that is, according to Mourão, his government will make a new constitution made by a commission of notables.

If the dispute between Haddad and Bolsonaro is confirmed in the second round, Brazil will leave the election with a more radical government for both left and right. The question is: the country that is coming from a deep and deep recession will enter 2019 with a very difficult political agenda, regardless of who is elected.