Commentator José Eduardo Cardozo and businessman and former federal deputy Alexis Fonteyne discussed, this Friday (14), in The Great Debate (Monday to Friday, at 11pm), if public security causes President Lula to lose votes.
The Genial/Quaest survey showed President Lula’s advantage against opposition opponents in a possible second round, held in October. The most recent survey took place after the mega-operation that left 121 people dead in Rio de Janeiro.
Cardozo assesses that the perception of the mega-operation will change over time.
“This type of thing seems to me to require a reflection that the passionalism and common sense that is captured by the discourse of the extreme right cannot always effectively respond to and we are left with discourses that obviously ignore the Rule of Law. After all, they wanted to abolish the Rule of Law, they wanted to abolish sovereignty when they went with the United States flag in Paulista, they applauded Donald Trump. So let’s applaud the end of the Constitution, criminals have to die even if they don’t have a gun in their hand”, he said.
“It is a matter of time to realize that the killing does not deserve applause,” he continued.
Fonteyne understands that public security is the “Achilles heel” of the Lula government.
“An advantage that had been gained with the issue of sanctions and everything else, quickly, through the president’s own clumsy statements. One in Malaysia, saying that traffickers were victims of drug users. Then here in Brazil, he said that the mandate was for arrest, it was not killing and he was in defense of all the criminals who had been killed, it was very bad for him”, he defended.
“But it is the discourse of the left, which always romanticizes the criminal, calls them victims of society, even diminishing those people who live in the communities and who are not involved in crime”, he continued.
