VILA JOANINHA, on the edge of Diadema, a suburb of São Paulo, is the kind of gritty neighbourhood that voted for the Workers’ Party (PT) of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the former president who on April 7th began a 12-year jail sentence for corruption. But crime and unemployment have hit the area hard and there is anger about graft. Vila Joaninha’s loyalties are wavering. Lindomar Santos Galvão, a gardener, says that in the presidential election due in October he might support Jair Bolsonaro, a former army captain and maverick seven-term congressman of extreme right-wing, macho views. “I think he’d bring order,” he says.
Two of his colleagues in the Vila Joaninha residents’ association are less sure. “Bolsonaro could win,” says Cleber Souza, the president. “I don’t support him but we need new people.” Silvia Souza (no relation), a medical secretary, thinks the PT still has some credibility “because of the opportunities it gave” when it was in power. “People who...Continue reading
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