OttoniBastos said:
¹There is more then one reason for why this happenned. - Dilma won last elections by like ~51%,which means that barely half of the population didn't want her and were unhappy with the results. - Less than a year after her re-election an economical crisis starts(Which affected everyone including the poor people which are the main demographic that voted on Dilma) - The Curruption in brazillian goverment is huge right now(to be fair it always was but with the crisis,people lost their patience). - The rival parties took this political enviroment as an opportunity to launch a campaign to completely destroy Dilma's public image(with the help of our fox new's equivalent "Globo" and the social media) - Because of the crisis dilma also started making cuts in education,health and even social programs like "bolsa familia" which were her goverment's main archievements. - People from her side started jumping ship and allign with the opposition to stay in power. ²Michel Temer is the vice president and the one in charge now that the impeachment happened,Renan calheiros is the president of the senate and waldir maranhão is the temporary president of the chamber of deputies.Here in brazil we have multiples parties which may allign with each other depending of the political scenario.Temer is from the PMDB which was allign with Dilma's PT to the point that Dilma offered the VP to him.Now with the crisis Temer went full Frank Underwood and now he is the President of our country. ³I believe the crisis will slow down and Dilma will hardly get back to power(people really hate her).Next elections will be interesting though... |
Very accurate. Just some things you didn't mention.
1) Dilma won with 51% because the opposition candidate had all of the other parties in his pocket. In the second leg of the elections, almost all neutral parties sided with the opposition candidate, giving them an enormous boost. Otherwise she would have won by a larger margin.
2) Corruption in Brazil was big since I was born, in the middle of the military dictatorship, and my grandfather used to say that Brazil was the most corrupt country in the world, and he was from the 1910's. So, go figure that!
3) The economical crisis had been with Brazil for a long time, since the end of Lulas presidency. Just take for instance, Brazil 2006 GDP was up by 7.5%, and was one of the fastest growing economies in the world. Not just that, but it was so sustainable, that Forbes in 2009 made a cover saying that "Brazil took off". However, since 2012, the GDP was growing at a steady 2 to 3%, whilst in 2014 grow up only by 1%. Brazils biggest supporters and buyers are still in big crisis themselves, China and England alike. It's not fair nor accurate to say that the economical crisis begin last year. Just because Brazil wasn't down in 5% recession as was Portugal or Spain, it doesn't mean that the crisis didn't exist.
