Richtungswahlen in Brasilien - Die Folgen für Europa, Deutschland und Trump

In Brazil, Latin America's largest democracy, the end of an era is approaching: who will govern the second-largest state on the American continent next year? The shift to the right in the gubernatorial and Senate elections is already shifting the balance of power across the country. Because in Congress and in the individual states, the right-conservative camp around 45-year-old Flávio Bolsonaro will, regardless of the outcome of the runoff election for the presidency on 25 October, have far more influence on politics than before. Incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva ("Lula") is over 80 years old and dominated Brazilian politics for decades. Even in the event of a fourth term, however, he would be politically weakened. What are the geopolitical and environmental-policy consequences of this development? And what is in store for the German economy? More than 1,000 German companies are active in this resource-rich country, many of them from Bavaria.