‘It smells dirty’: scandals loom over Bolsonaro after first month in office | World news | The Guardian

 


"But while Bolsonaro’s approval ratings and consumer confidence both remain high, experts say the damage has already been done.

Paulo Celso Pereira, head of O Globo’s Brasilia newsroom, said Bolsonaro had hoped to “hit the ground running and impose his agenda, particularly in terms of public security and economic reform” when Brazil’s congress reopens on Friday. “I think this will now be very hard.”

Celso Rocha de Barros, a columnist from the Folha de São Paulo newspaper, was more damning.

“It’s difficult to remember a Brazilian government that has gotten off to such a bad start … It’s hard to find anybody who manages to defend what has happened in this first month – unless they are paid to do so.”"

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‘It smells dirty’: scandals loom over Bolsonaro after first month in office | World news | The Guardian