Brazil’s Right Comes Roaring Back as Lula Starts Prison Sentence
- Rightwing parties have seen numbers swell in recent weeks
- The number of Democratas federal deputies has almost doubled
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Further political upheaval is on its way in Brazil, if recent party-swapping by lawmakers is any guide to October’s elections.
After years on the ropes, the right is poised to come roaring back, based on the sharp rise in legislators joining conservative parties as shown in a Bloomberg tally of their own reports. And with former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva now in jail, and likely barred from standing in the elections, the left is starting to fragment.