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Sonderreihe Corona 5: "Bolsonaro is cornered" (Wissen2Go)

Sonderreihe Corona 5: "Bolsonaro is cornered" (Wissen2Go)

PolitikWissen vor 6 Jahren

Jair Bolsonaro, the Brazilian president, has continuously downplayed the gravity of the corona outbreak, calling it a "small cold" and urging people to stop quarantining.

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Meanwhile, Brazil's health minister and many state governors have
bypassed him and implemented their own social distancing and
self-isolation measures. Speaker: Trix van Mierlo Authors: Trix van
Mierlo, Ana Tereza Fernandes Date of the recording: 2020-04-02 Trix
van Mierlo is a PhD candidate at the Department of Political
Science at the University of Innsbruck. Her research focuses on
social movement mobilisation and protest in subnational
authoritarian enclaves in consolidating democracies. She was doing
academic fieldwork in Brazil right before many states went into
lockdown because of the pandemic. Ana Tereza Fernandes is a pre-doc
researcher at the Department of Political Science since January
2020. She is graduated in Public Administration and Law, holds a
Post-Graduation (lato sensu) in Public Law and finished her Masters
in Political Science in 2018, all in renowned Brazilian academic
institutes. She also worked as a specialist in public policy and
governmental management in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, for
the past ten years. Her research interests focus on federalism and
particularly its potential influences on political behavior. Van
Mierlo explains: "Bolsonaro is trying to create a political
narrative where he, since the beginning, had been a protector of
stability and employment." Since Bolsonaro has been attacking the
congress and the judicial branch before the spread of the
coronavirus, and has now moved on to the state governors, he is
currently isolated. "In other words, the scenario that Bolsonaro
will lose the support of his electorate and that this will
seriously damage him is not unthinkable. There is even some talk
about moving for impeachment now the president is cornered", says
van Mierlo. Cover: Marcos Corrêa/PR, Palácio do Planalto from
Brasilia, Brasil, via Wikimedia Commons, license:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en. ---- Music by
Lost Harmonies. This podcast gives the views of the author(s), and
not the position of the Department of Political Science, University
of Innsbruck. This work by the Department of Political Science,
University of Innsbruck, is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC
BY-NC-ND 4.0).