Teivo Teivainen, professor of world politics at the University of Helsinki, does not believe that the riots in Brazil will lead to a large-scale coup.
8.1. 23:53•Updated 8.1. 23:57
of the former president of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro supporters have invaded the area of several government buildings in the capital, Brasília.
Brazilian media estimates that around 3,000 people participate in the unrest in the capital.
Supporters have apparently invaded at least the areas of the parliament, the presidential palace, the Supreme Court and the buildings of the ministries. For example, hundreds of people have gathered in the Parliament area.
Professor of world politics at the University of Helsinki Teivo Teivainen doesn’t think Brazil’s riots will lead to a full-scale coup.
– I don’t think that the armed forces as a whole or the Senate or the Congress would support the protesters. A key reason is also that some of the neighboring countries in the region have a left-wing government and many countries have already condemned the coup attempt.
According to Teivainen, for example, Ecuador, which has a right-wing government, also had time to condemn the demonstrations of Bolsonaro’s supporters.
– I also don’t think that the United States should support the protesters. The international situation is such that the Brazilian armed forces are hardly so irrational as to push their country into the role of an international outcast in this situation.
The riots did not come as a surprise to Teivain.
– The other week I was in Brazil myself, looking at the camps of Bolsenaro’s supporters, where they demanded the intervention of the soldiers in front of the armed forces bases. After all, the atmosphere there has been such that some kind of chaos and chaos is coming.
– This is gone Donald Trump’s according to the playbook, and even there Trump didn’t want to comment on the Capitol attack at all. In the epiphany of 2021, supporters of Donald Trump, who lost the election, stormed the Congress building in Washington. I don’t think Bolsonaro himself imagines that he has a realistic chance of returning to Brazil and jumping back into the presidency.