Owner of Paraná Researchesthe institute that came closest to the official result in the first and second rounds of the 2022 elections, Murilo Hidalgo believes that the Lula government fell into a trap, without being able to overcome three issues: the Federal Court of JusticeO January 8th and himself Jair Bolsonaro.
“What would I say to you today? People don’t know what the Lula-3 government did. [A gestão petista] cannot leave the agenda of the STF, 8 de Janeiro and Bolsonaro,” Hidalgo told column.
This Thursday, the 28th, Paraná Pesquisas released a new survey in which the leader of the Brazilian extreme right appears numerically ahead of Lula in a possible electoral dispute for the presidency of the Republic.
Ineligible and with his legal situation worsening every day, Bolsonaro would today have 37.1% of voting intentions against 35.3% for the PT member who occupies the Palácio do Planalto for the third time.
Asked by the column whether the improvement in the economy is not influencing the mood of middle-class Brazilians, for example, Murilo Hidalgo said he didn’t believe that. “The economy is a supermarket. He forgets”.
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Lula has achieved important economic victories. He approved a new spending control structure that had been demoralized during the Bolsonaro government, carried out tax reform and Brazil grew in 2023 much more than economists predicted.
But food inflation is on the rise at the beginning of 2024, which is much more palpable for the average Brazilian – and usually increases the disapproval of the government official on duty. Even from a popular president like the leftist.
“Lula won the election using his second government, saying that the country would go back to shopping, traveling, etc. Look at the plane tickets. The dream is over. The reality is the same”, said the owner of Paraná Pesquisas.
