Brazil descended into a major political crisis after the 2013 mass demonstrations against electoral corruption and failure to fulfil constitutional obligations related to social and economic rights. This turmoil destabilized the political establishment and severely impacted the behaviour of legal institutions. The use of political mandates and institutional prerogatives, contrary to established social norms and traditional interpretations of the law, became unexceptional. In this article, Operation Car Wash, the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff, and the process to save the mandate of her successor, President Michel Temer, are analysed as successive examples of ‘constitutional hardball’ that dominated Brazilian political and institutional life, leading the country to a period of ‘constitutional malaise’ or ‘constitutional regression.’ The main objective of the article is to understand the impact of this cycle of institutional retaliations, rooted in the clash between the political and legal establishments (represented by Operation Car Wash), on the stability of Brazilian constitutional democracy.

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权力冲突：洗车行动是否引发了巴西的宪法危机？

在 2013 年反对选举腐败和未能履行与社会和经济权利相关的宪法义务的大规模示威活动之后，巴西陷入了一场重大的政治危机。这场动荡动摇了政治体制，严重影响了法律机构的行为。违反既定社会规范和传统法律解释的政治授权和制度特权的使用变得不例外。在这篇文章中，洗车行动、弹劾总统迪尔玛·罗塞夫以及挽救其继任者米歇尔·特梅尔总统的任务的过程被分析为主导巴西政治和制度生活的“宪法强硬”的连续例子，导致国家进入“宪法萎靡”或“宪法倒退”时期。