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Talking about the country I reside in: the former president got convicted and is currently facing at least a few years of prison for attempting a military coup d'etat. Hopefully, he won't be able to become president again. The current president (who also had jail time a couple years ago, only for his charges to be nullified due to a biased former judge and a biased (highly influenced by USA soft power in order for USA to get more control of this country) due process he underwent, allowing him to become president once again) doesn't have the same "appeal" from his previous terms, and there seems to be some kind of political limbo haunting both the left and the right-wing parties: both aren't sure who will be their candidates. The current left-wing president, as far as I know and if I remember correctly, can't become a candidate again (he's in his third term), and his previous attempt of pointing out a successor failed in the past. As for the right-wing, no hypothesized candidates would perform nationwide, because they're either regional figures (e.g. the current governors of two rich states) not that known in other regions, or the former president's wife (which is particularly funny to see right-wing parties hypothesizing her as candidate, as the right-wing is known for their machismo and "tradwife" bigotry).
As for people, while the country continues highly polarized, it feels to me that people aren't as political as 2015-2020. The current left-wing president isn't performing well in surveys (even though, to me, I've been agreeing more with some of his positions, especially his courage to openly label the current situation in Gaza as genocide, something that few world leaders did). But people don't seem so cheerful for the right-wing, either. So I guess this answers the main question with yeah, people around here seem to be tired of politics and governments as a whole, yet they don't seem to be doing much about it. People seem to be busier with other things beyond politics.
Note: I'm talking about my perception, which is likely biased towards the apolitical. The reality is much more deep and complicated when we consider the entire country.
the thing with brazil is that lula sort of got out of the ropes when he had no alternative but to defend his own government against an attack by the fascist and the traditional right wing opposition (the so called centrão, which has got nothing of center politics). he had some boost which allowed to defeat the proposal to pardon the 2023 putschists and approve the income tax exemption for those earning less than 12,200 usd per month. we'll see the next months, but so far he got a boost and will likely win 2026, but more out of inertia from the opposition who doesn't really know what to do with bolsonaro jailed, than because he's doing a really good job (it isn't).