Roberto Véras de Oliveira is an associate professor at the University of ParaÃba, Brazil. He is the author of Syndicalism and Democracy in Brazil: From New Syndicalism to Social Unionism.
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.