nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20200408-153025-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 200408s2020||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20200408-153025-0 doi eng 342 23 Peluso Neder Meyer, Emilio Author aut Authoritarianism Without Emergency Powers: Brazil Under COVID-19 Peluso Neder Meyer, Emilio Verfassungsblog 2020-04-08 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier One of the few heads of state that insist on denying scientific and epidemiologic facts concerning the spread of COVID-19 is the Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. For Bolsonaro, politics comes before truth. Since the beginning of the pandemic of COVID-19, he is disseminating doubts on social media (although Twitter, Facebook and Instagram deleted some of his posts) to galvanize his radical supporters while creating a distraction for his government’s inability to implement social and economic aids to the low-income families affected by social distancing. For the moment, the president has failed to gather the public support that he needs for an extension of the emergency powers of the executive, like Orbán did in Hungary. But his authoritarian discourse has not disappeared from the horizon. On 31st March 2020, for instance, Bolsonaro celebrated the anniversary of the Coup of 1964 as a “great day for freedom”. funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Authoritarianism Bolsonaro Brazil Coronavirus COVID 19 emergency powers Bustamante, Thomas Author aut Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/authoritarianism-without-emergency-powers-brazil-under-covid-19/ raw object