In this electoral campaign, it was placed on the stage and took the place it once held and, before that, the savings account as objects of dispute and fertile ground for the planting of lies between opposing parties and politicians. The common characteristic between them is the character of national unanimity.
In the last century, the fashion was to accuse the opponent of planning to kidnap Brazilians’ savings money. It was like that in the first direct presidential election, when Fernando Collor preached suspicion in Luiz Inácio da Silva, won the parade and the day after the inauguration he confiscated practically everything from everyone.
Then came the wave of spreading that social problems —Bolsa Família at the forefront— would be extinguished if the PT was defeated. It didn’t happen, the population incorporated the heritage as their rightful forever and, from then on, such benefits lost much of their electoral appeal.
Pix is the hot ticket in the dispute between (PT) and (). The president’s campaign treats the tool as a symbol of the defense of national sovereignty, and the senator’s group attributes merit to the (PL) government.
Both navigate the sea of lies and contradiction by appropriating the technological expertise of a freelancer, under the presidency of Ilan Goldfajn, in 2018.
Two years later, it was officially launched under the administration of Jair Bolsonaro, who, at the time, didn’t even know what it was about. I thought Pix had something to do with civil aviation.
Lula, on the other hand, commits the inconsistency of extolling the most visible fruit of the BC’s autonomy, against which the president himself has positioned himself more than once. In the 2014 election, the PT’s strategy to demolish the candidacy of , then in the PSB, included accusing her of “handing the country over to the bankers” for defending the independence of the Central Bank.
Lula and Flávio have the chance to redeem themselves now, when the amendment that expands the BC’s autonomy and puts Pix under the mantle of .
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