How did he manage to push past the screen, is an even bigger question. Apparently Benedict and the college of cardinals was for this “bully.”
I don’t think we know who Benedict might have favored. You aren’t thinking he was in the Conclave, are you? (I always thought he should have become Cardinal Ratzinger again, although maybe he didn’t make that choice precisely to avoid being in the Conclave!)
I have read that Cardinal Burke stood up and argued against the election of Bergoglio—which is, of course, why Bergoglio took immediate revenge on him.
Bergoglio’s mind closed many decades ago. He enforces a bubble around himself. His “humility” is all a pose. He is spiteful, angry, and vicious. With this bitter, dishonst encyclical, he has blown his cover with many, many people.