On the first pledge, Bolsonaro acted swiftly, decreeing much looser regulation for possessing up to four firearms at home. Indeed, the president is dogged by an expanding suspicious payments scandal involving his son Flavio Bolsonaro, a lawmaker in the upper chamber. What Bolsonaro lacks, however, is a ruling-party majority in Congress to push through legislation. If the government manages it, it will have a lot of (political) capital," said Carlos Pereira, a political analyst at the Getulio Vargas Foundation. "We have a president who, although is not in our political field, was elected by the majority of the Brazilian population," he said.

Source: Bangkok Post February 01, 2019 19:41 UTC