- Datum: 01.11.2018
- Land:Brasilien
- Kategorie:Berichte & Analysen
Evangelicals and Politics in Latin America
In Latin America, candidates with conservative-value agendas and strong positions on authority and order as well as against crime and…
In Latin America, candidates with conservative-value agendas and strong positions on authority and order as well as against crime and corruption are especially attractive to the rapidly growing number of Evangelical churches and believers in the region. At the same time, they have become an important target group of politicians of different parties searching for support.
Jair Messias Bolsonaro, the former army captain and recently elected Brazilian president from the Social Liberal Party (PSL) with the campaign slogan “Brazil above everything; God above everyone”, is a paramount example of the linkage between politics and Evangelical values, interests, and actors in Latin America: Bolsonaro counted on the support of the Evangelical Parliamentary Front of the National Congress, comprising 199 deputies with diverse party affiliations and 60 percent of the Evangelical electorate’s voting intention for the electoral run-off. Edir Macedo, founder of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God and owner of the second largest media network in Brazil, endorsed Bolsonaro’s candidacy and broadcasted a favourable interview with him on his TV Programme.
Evangelicals and Politics in Latin America, SWP Comment, N°46, Oktober 2018
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