A international press highlighted the second round of municipal elections in Brazil, focusing mainly on the result of Rio de Janeiro, where Marcelo Crivella (PRB) won Marcelo Freixo (PSOL).
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The websites of some of the world's main newspapers highlighted the victory of an evangelical leader in the city that hosted the 2016 Olympics and the shift to the right in the main municipalities of the largest nation in Latin America.
It is worth remembering that the more conservative a party is, the more difficult life becomes for its LGBT community unlikely to see any progress in their laws and rights.
Wall Street Journal
He pointed out that "marginal and conservative" candidates were elected in several Brazilian cities after candidates with a greater political tradition were rejected. According to the WSJ, Crivella painted his rival Freixo "as a radical in a nation tired of the left following the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff in August." "It is possible to attribute Crivella to this conservative wave in Brazil," Marcos Pinto, an analyst at the political research group of the Inter-Parliamentary Consultative Department, told the WSJ. "He emerges in a climate of desperation."
The Associated Press news agency pointed out that conservative Crivella's triumph is "the latest demonstration of widespread anger against left-wing parties established in the midst of a deep recession and in the wake of the impeachment process." The AP also drew attention to the rise of evangelical politicians. "Crivella's remarks against gays, Roman Catholics and African religions outraged many people but did little to change the vote."
El País
He highlighted the clash in Rio de Janeiro, stating that the election put two models in dispute. "One is Crivella, senator since 2002, engineer and gospel singer, defender of Creationist Theory, evangelizer in Africa and licensed bishop of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, the third with the most faithful in Brazil, founded by his uncle. Freixo, on the contrary, it defends the legalization of abortion and drugs and embodies the left in the midst of the PT and former president Dilma Rousseff's crisis", said the publication.
The newspaper also highlighted that the new mayor faces the enormous challenge of a post-Olympic Rio, citing the increase in unemployment, the consequences of the financial crisis in the State and the need for Rio to gain prominence as a business tourist destination. "The millions of Cariocas also need basic things like urban sanitation, streets that don't turn into a river during the rainy season, social housing or air-conditioned buses in summers that exceed 45 degrees."
Le Monde
He pointed out the rise of right-wing parties in Brazil and highlighted that all attention was focused on Rio de Janeiro this Sunday, with the post-Olympic "Marvelous City" being the stage for a power struggle between two "diametrically opposed" candidates. "The success of the conservative candidate symbolizes the expansion of the evangelical religion in the country with the largest number of Catholics in the world", pointed out the French newspaper, which also highlighted the decline of the PT in the main capitals.
