Brazil is a democracy (we managed to save it at the last toll of the bell), so the president is not an all-powerful entity. A big part of congress is conservative, many backed by agro businesses, and a lot of the rest are right-wing vultures posing as fundamentalistic evangelicals who support selling the country out for the biggest margin of profit, so that they can live in the glory of lord while their flock of idiots awaits for the supposed arrival of the messiah.