The right-wing, anti-system Free Brazil Movement, or MBL, is on the verge of securing what has always eluded Jair Bolsonaro himself: a political party of its own. Electoral prosecutors issued a favorable opinion on the registration of the Mission party, which is to be the movement’s new political arm. 

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