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[–] 21 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)
  1. like all democracies, Brazil has separation of powers.
  2. Legislative power rests in the Congress
  3. Lula is not the Congress
  4. Now the part that might get confusing for USians. As an actual pluralistic democracy there are several parties in the Brazilian congress.
  5. Lula's party doesn't have a majority in congress and as such needs to convince other parties to vote for its proposals to get them approved.
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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 child)

    PT is almost always in a coalition with PSOL, and often more fringe parties like PCdB, UP, are willing to support them with the little representation they have, there is also the "center left" (highly questionable to be willing to call the that honestly) parties that sometimes are willing to, the biggest being PSDB, sometimes PT has to give in some controversial concessions to get support, like for example with a concession to get some of their representitives to support the "Lei Felca" which is a highyl controversion law that passed that can only described as a parallel to the UK's Online Safety Act, although the former has not been enforved so far at all (AFAIK) even though it has been in effect for months, but that hasn't stopped platforms from already trying to comply with its impossible and insane text

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

    Their current coalition has exactly half of the senators - so one dissident away from not being able to pass a law - and includes two center-right parties (MDB and PSD) and is in the minority in the Chamber of Deputies.

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