According to Vicente Ferraro, a master in political science and a researcher at the Laboratory of Asian Studies at USP, the practical effect of President Jair Bolsonaro’s (PL) trip to Hungary should be low, both on the electoral and economic spectrum.
“The practical effects, both electoral and commercial in the long run, are very low. If this rapprochement is motivated only by ideological pressure, I don’t think it will last very long,” Ferraro said.
In an interview with CNN This Thursday (17), the political scientist analyzed that Russia was among the countries that Brazil imported the most products in 2021, but that there is still greater potential for exporting Brazilian products to the Eastern European country. Thus, “despite the ideological symbolism, the meeting with Vladimir Putin had an economic focus”.
“The visit to Hungary is an ideological signal to the most faithful electoral base. It is more of a visit to Viktor Orban as a political figure of the far right than to Hungary itself,” said the researcher.
As Ferraro explained, Vladimir Putin, president of Russia – a country that Bolsonaro visited before Hungary –, Viktor Orban, Hungarian president, and Bolsonaro have personal ideological affinities.
“The three leaders have a number of personal ideological affinities, such as conservatism, positions hostile to political liberalism, the LGBTQIA+ movement, other social movements, a certain militarist position and an association with processes of democratic erosion,” he said.
Finally, Vicente Ferraro analyzed that both meetings aim to show that Bolsonaro is not isolated in the international scenario, but that, although it is a signal to the ideological electoral base in Brazil, it should not have significant effects on this spectrum either.
“The most ideological basis is minority and there is no indication that foreign policy has a very significant electoral effect in Brazil,” he said. “Hungary is also not among our main trading partners,” she added.
Source: CNN Brasil
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