Lucia Mury Scalco is an anthropologist and a post-doctoral fellow at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. She is currently the president of the NGO Coletivo Autônomo do Morro da Cruz.
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.