Re:Brazil's President Bolsonaro tests positive for coronavirus
by pucallpa on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @01:34PM
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while he makes more damage to his people ?
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Re:Brazil's President Bolsonaro tests positive for coronavirus
by petre on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @01:47PM
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He was elected by 55% of the very same people. His people. Voting is mandatory in Brazil and one gets a fine of 3.51 BRL and has to provide justification if they fail to participate.
Re:Brazil's President Bolsonaro tests positive for coronavirus
by SwiftyBug on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @03:38PM
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Voting is mandatory but one can nullify their vote, vote blank or just not vote at all (thus, having to pay the fine) which was the case of 30% of the votes in the last presidential election in Brazil. So the actual percentage of people who wanted him as president is much lower than 55%.
Re:Brazil's President Bolsonaro tests positive for coronavirus
by petre on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @05:12PM
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It doesn't matter. Null votes don't count. They should have voted for the other guy if they didn't like Bolsonaro.
Mandatory voting is just another useless attempt to mask the fact that today's politicians are not actual leaders but rather worthless reality TV personas. Like in Ukraine where people picked an actual actor in an attempt to mock the worthless political class. It's typical Eastern European absurd humour. Adam Curtis' HyperNormalisation documentary explains it quite well.