The Delicate Balancing Act of Bolsonaro’s Possible Heir
Tarcísio de Freitas is being floated as a more moderate successor to Bolsonaro on Brazil’s right, but it won’t be smooth sailing.
Without former President Jair Bolsonaro, São Paulo Governor Tarcísio de Freitas would be a nobody. At least, that was what Freitas said himself, on the conservative news network Jovem Pan in March. The soft-spoken former Bolsonaro cabinet official has reason to be grateful to the man who made possible his successful run to helm Brazil’s most populous and richest state. But with the former president now officially disqualified from running for office until 2030, Tarcísio—as he is known in the Brazilian press—is being floated as a potential standard-bearer for the political...
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