Dismantling and Reconstruction of Public Policies in Brazil: From Bolsonaro’s Destruction to the Possibilities of Union to Rebuild

This article discusses the Brazilian political situation with a focus on the dismantling of public policy that occurred during the government of President Jair Bolsonaro between 2019 and 2022. It also focuses on the possibility that emerged with the election of President Lula da Silva in October 2022 of rebuilding politics and the Brazilian state. The study seeks to demonstrate how the Brazilian state was dismantled, jeopardizing the provision of public policies that guarantee the social, political, and human rights enshrined in the 1988 Brazilian Constitution.