Aldo Cordeiro Sauda is a journalist and PSOL activist who covered the Arab Spring for Estado de São Paulo and Folha de São Paulo, and is currently a masters candidate in political science at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP).
The first round of the local elections took place against a backdrop of widespread creeping fascism in France and comes after a brutal offensive by the far right, during which the traditional ‘Republican’ right has decisively broken from much of its historical framework and values.