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Karina Michelin stated that the cover of the October 10 to 16 edition of *The Economist* featured the phrase “The Bolsonaros are back” and that the editorial described Brazil as a right-wing country. According to her, the magazine, which had made severe criticisms of Jair Bolsonaro, did not express support for the family but acknowledged a political shift in the country. Michelin wrote that after the first round, Flávio Bolsonaro entered the decisive race ahead of Lula, with about 47% of the valid votes against 45%. She said that the magazine considered him the favorite for October 25 and projected his victory. The author also attributed to the publication the assessment that the PL expanded its presence in the Senate and the Chamber, while the right consolidated its space in the largest electoral colleges. According to Michelin, the magazine linked Lula's decline to the cost of living, debt, fiscal difficulties, scandals, and the loss of strength of his discourse among young people. Michelin stated that the dominance of the PT faced a rupture that, in her view, could not be explained solely by anti-PT sentiment or by the figure of Jair Bolsonaro. Although Lula was still contesting the presidency and the ballots of October 25 would provide the final result, she concluded that the right was not a passing wave and that Brazilians had brought the Bolsonaros back. #Brasil #Política #Eleições (translated)

The author wrote that he had said since November 2024 that Trump sees Europe as a systemic and strategic opponent and Russia as a corresponding partner. The foreign and security policy establishment had thought at the time that he was exaggerating. #Trump #Europa #Sicherheitspolitik #EU #RU (translated)

Oliver Gorus described Ulrich Siegmund as an exceptionally talented populist. BMW had given him a good opportunity, which Siegmund surely utilized, wrote Gorus. Thus, the AfD is achieving one success after another, while the establishment, out of arrogance, fails to understand the underlying mechanism. #Populismus #AfD #Politik (translated)

The writer listed Schröder, Maaßen, and Hanning, arguing that the cases were not isolated scandals but reflected what they described as decades of systemic compromise in the German government and security establishment. They said the latest case had been uncovered by accident and argued that further breaches might remain undiscovered. #Deutschland #Skandal #Sicherheit #DE (translated)

The author wrote that Barack Obama would campaign for Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan. He presented the former president as a figure of the Democratic establishment and described El-Sayed as a candidate of "Mamdani's America." https://t.co/KnYzcf7XrX #Midterms #Election2024 #Démocrates #US (translated)

Leandro Ruschel questioned why Valdemar da Costa Neto was presiding over the PL and asked the party's parliamentarians to choose a new president. He stated that Valdemar had been put in the position to contain the right and protect the establishment. #Política #Direita #PartidosPolíticos (translated)

Maddalena Loy wrote in Panorama that the German establishment had prepared to counter a populist figure with a paramilitary image, but found itself facing Alice Weidel, a former Goldman Sachs analyst. According to Loy, while her opponents focused on Weidel's personal contradictions, the AfD leader challenged the official positions of the CDU and progressives by relying on ruthless economic pragmatism. Loy cited the historic electoral results in the eastern Länder and the polls which, according to her, indicated the AfD as the leading German party. She argued that these results had rendered the quarantine ineffective and left the left stagnant. According to the author, even in Germany they had not anticipated Weidel's rise. #Germania #politica #elezioni (translated)

Oana Eftimie described Călin Georgescu as a political prisoner and called for intensified international pressure on the authorities in Bucharest. She argued that he was targeted because he wanted to run as an independent candidate in the presidential elections and that the abuses were also aimed at the population, starting from December 6, 2024. Eftimie stated that the efforts of Florian Philippot from Les Patriotes in France, the interview that George Simion was supposed to give to Mario Nawfal, and the protests organized every evening in front of the Central Arrest were important but insufficient. She urged AUR to use its international networks and to send letters and notifications to politicians and European institutions. Among the aspects that Eftimie called for to be denounced were the images and information that reached the press during the search, as well as the breaking of the gate with a ram. She also questioned the proportionality of the preventive arrest, stating that, after the first 24 hours, a judge decided to release Georgescu and place him under judicial control. According to Eftimie, he did not evade the investigation and did not refuse to comply with procedures, but was subsequently deprived of his freedom again; she asked what justification existed for this measure. #DetinutiPolitici #DrepturileOmului #Abuzuri (translated)

René Springer criticized the applause for what he described as a rhetorical denial of reality. He wrote that an establishment which loses elections everywhere and discusses a ban on the largest opposition party is celebrating itself. Moreover, the historically least popular Chancellor shook hands with the Federal President with emotion. Springer called the scene absurd and compared it to the GDR; in the "Federal Republic's ivory tower" a Politburo is apparently being played. #Politik #Demokratie #Deutschland (translated)

Björn Höcke wrote on the Day of German Unity on October 3rd that unity means not only a common state but also the equal belonging of all citizens, regardless of their political stance. The pension debate conveys to people with a GDR biography that their life’s achievements count for less, and during the Corona measures, the state split society even down to families, he explained. He also criticized that vaccination status has been made a measure of social belonging. Höcke accused unspecified individuals of leveling accusations against millions of people for linking their voting decisions to the crimes of Buchenwald. He dismissed such comparisons as politically motivated slurs, including one made by an older man. Cohesion requires respecting the decisions of others, even if one disagrees with them, he wrote. At the same time, Höcke pointed to business closures, families' worries about the future of their children, and a trust damaged by political failure. War rhetoric intensifies these fears, he claimed. The AfD extends a hand to all who do not want to come to terms with this; the recent election results show that more and more people want to take their fate into their own hands, he wrote. Germany will also overcome the walls that are currently being erected between citizens, Höcke added. #Einheit #Zusammenhalt #Deutschland (translated)

The assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, which took place in 2018 at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, revealed ties to the Saudi establishment and led to international outrage and accusations against Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of endorsing the operation to capture or kill a critic of his power. #Chaszukdżi #ArabiaSaudyjska #prawaCzłowieka (translated)

What irony. Once a rebel, a journalist fighting against the arrogant establishment. Today he dances on a yacht, mocking investments in public services. He laughs at investments that allowed young working parents in small towns to send their child to daycare. At public transport, which allows for cheaper and faster commutes to work. At social housing, support for people with disabilities, vocational training in small towns, connecting sewer systems and the internet to places in Poland that would never be reached commercially. Mr. Stanowski reduces it to... "Haha, yachts." Mr. Stanowski, not everyone has a limousine, a chauffeur, money for private schools, and a villa near Warsaw. There are people who do not have all of this and need daycare, good public schools, trains, and buses for a dignified life. (translated)

"Establishment satire ridicules the behaviors, aesthetics, or followers of corrupt leaders while leaving systemic inequalities completely untouched. It mocks individual figures but implicitly validates the underlying political and capitalist institutions, breeding cynicism among #Satire #PoliticalCommentary #Cynicism #Thetweetdoesnotmentionanyspecificcountries #sotherearenocountrycodestoreturn.

Não tenho nenhuma informação de bastidor. Não vi tracking de ninguém. Estou absolutamente alheio ao disse-que-me-disse da corrida eleitoral. Mas, a julgar pela reação atabalhoada do establishment mendoncístico-mediático, eu consigo imaginar o tamanho do buraco feito na campanha. #Eleições2024 #PolíticaBR #CampanhaEleitoral