Bolsonaro’s “Aliança Pelo Brasil” Party Lacks Support Needed for TSE Registration

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – It is no coincidence that President Jair Bolsonaro has challenged his own project to create the Aliança pelo Brasil (Alliance for Brazil) political party. By Tuesday, August 18th, after almost nine months collecting signatures, the party had only managed to register 18,702 party supporters at the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) – less than four percent of the requisite number.

In a live broadcast on Thursday, August 13th, Bolsonaro complained about the bureaucracy to get the party started, said he could not “be 100 percent devoted” to the project and said he had been probed by at least four existing parties, among them PSL (Social Liberal Party), which he joined in 2018 to run under its banner for the presidency.

The tone of the President’s remarks was quite different from the excitement shown at the start of this year, when Bolsonaro said that in the 2022 elections, the Aliança pelo Brasil could elect “about 100 deputies” and “about 10 senators”.

Launched in November last year, after Bolsonaro’s rupture with PSL, the party that was designed to house the Bolsonaro clan got only 3.8 percent of the nearly 492,000 signatures required to register with the TSE.

At its current pace, the inchoate party would not obtain registration in less than 15 years. Until then, it will be impossible for Bolsonaro to realize his ambitious dream of electing over 100 Aliança pelo Brasil legislative candidates.

Source: BR Político