Academicos de Niterói was not because it honored President Luiz Inácio da Silva (). She received the lowest marks from the judges at the samba school parade because she performed worse than her competitors in the Special Group.
It’s the game and there’s no dishonor in that. It happens to most smaller clubs. They go up one year, down the next; some gain strength and manage to establish themselves, like , a former member of the second echelon.
The bitter taste of political defeat was left to the government’s account due to a lack of political expertise, lack of a sense of opportunity and overconfidence in a popular appeal that the PT no longer attracts. Natural, too. Effect of the passage of time, active opposition competition and the existence of new demands in society. The damage from an average parade would have been limited to the school and would not have gone beyond the country’s borders if the president and the party had not made the mistake of sitting in a minefield.
Yes, , and public funds distributed equally among all. But things didn’t stop there. It could have stopped if the government hadn’t decided to take on the school’s cause as its own.
A. Before that, she invited the artist who represented her husband at Sapucaí. Ministers went with Lula to the sambadrome and, together with PT leaders, spent days denying the undeniable pamphlet nature of the event, with arguments that confirmed the electoral intention.
And all this for nothing, besides being associated with natural mockery during the revelry, but counterproductive in the activities of those who need to add supporters to their power project.
The school returns to Niterói, preparing for the next Carnival. The government now bears the onus of having been unhappy with an electorate with which samba has no commitment, but which the candidate’s political sagacity should have the expertise to preserve.
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