Trump's defeat and Lula's victory weaken the right in the Americas and become an opportunity for the Brazilian president to pacify the country

The assessment is made by Lula's advisors and interlocutors. For them, the two movements put a brake on the offensive of the more ideological wing of the Trump administration, which sought to expand the influence of the right in the Americas.

Democrats won control of the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate in the elections held this Tuesday (3), removing the Republicans' dominance of both Houses of Congress.

In Brazil, Lula was re-elected in the second round, held on October 25, after defeating senator Flávio Bolsonaro (PL).

In the assessment of the Brazilian president's assistants, the results in both countries make an attempt to make the right hegemonic in the region difficult.

They also point out that recently elected right-wing governments in South America are already facing internal difficulties, which, in the view of these interlocutors, could limit this political field's capacity for regional articulation.

In Argentina, President Javier Milei represents the right. In Chile, José Antonio Kast, also right-wing, assumed the Presidency this year. Before the Brazilian election, the conservative advance had led the right to govern half of the countries in South America.

Now, according to Lula's advisors, the new scenario creates an opportunity for the president, in his fourth term, to seek to reduce political polarization in Brazil and increase the isolation of the most radical sectors of the right.

In the assessment of these interlocutors, Lula will have the opportunity in the next term to advance a pacification agenda that he was unable to fully implement during his third term and, with this, try to reduce the political strength of Bolsonarism.