Centrão reaches 2026 as a hostage of the ex-myth and tied to a monkey

On Saturday morning, Tarcísio took to social media to join the chorus of governors and right-wing leaders against Alexandre de Moraes’ decision to lock Bolsonaro in the Federal Police. They remained silent after the video showing a melted ankle monitor surfaced, along with the version that Bolsonaro soldered the piece due to a paranoid episode. These developments have the potential to disorient and divide the centrão. The fear of irrelevance is driving Bolsonaro to delay the transfer of what remains of his legacy. Worse still, he continues to threaten to launch his eldest son, Flávio. Tarcísio’s dream is rotting before it ripens. The possibility of the right-wing splitting into multiple presidential candidacies, favoring Lula, is not negligible.