The clouds of dark exhaust spewing from aging tanks and amphibious vehicles rolling past far-right President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday were a poor smoke screen for a leader whose political support is slipping and re-election is in trouble.
"Bolsonaro imagines this is showing strength, but in fact it is showing all the weakness of a president cornered by corruption investigations and his administrative incompetence in the midst of a pandemic still out of control," said Aziz, whose center-right PSD party had backed the president until last year.
"Whether the military intended this or not, this is terrible pressure on Congress," said Carlos Melo, a politics professor at Sao Paulo's Insper business school. "It is very bad for democracy." The commanders of Brazil's army, navy and air force resigned in protest at the president's interference. Their replacements flanked Bolsonaro on Tuesday as the tanks filed passed.
However, the political rebirth of leftist former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva may have unsettled more conservative military brass. As Bolsonaro's poll numbers have slipped, he has grown increasingly critical of Brazil's voting system, threatening not to respect the results of elections unless the votes are cast with paper.
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