No one needs to teach the three-time president that governing is one thing and campaigning is another, although he insists on carrying out both activities as if they were the same thing.
He uses two factors: the ability of the candidate and the more or less general benevolence resulting from the memory of the myth of the worker who became head of the nation. But there are times, and this one seems to be right now, when choices need to be made.
Government officials say behind the scenes that, in the Chamber, they want to rebuild the parliamentary support base. At the same time, the president and Minister of Finance go to the microphones to practically call the congressmen traitors to the country.
Well, there is something paradoxical there. Either the president intends to resume productive relations with parliamentarians or the candidate follows the strategy of treating them as adversaries to gain points with the population rightly angered by unacceptable conduct and decisions in a self-respecting Legislature.
The overthrow of an MP, besides not being unprecedented, is a prerogative guaranteed by the . In this specific case, the government had already been warned that the tax increase would not pass Congress. This was outlined in June, in the refusal of the decree of new rates for the IOF.
President Lula and Minister Fernando Haddad (PT) treated the issue as a crime against the country. In their view, the opposition makes the country unviable for political-electoral reasons.
Nobody needs to teach the PT what it means to oppose. But it is good to remember that the so-called damaging defeat was over an MP, while the PT members, if they had been in the majority more than 30 years ago, the Real Plan would have been rejected. They voted against it, just as they did with the privatization of telecommunications. Just to mention two points that would actually harm Brazil, if the view of delay prevailed.
But, okay, that’s how it is. Therefore, the government cannot dream of everyone’s unanimity and reverence because this is not part of the democratic struggle.
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