It will not be the 80 minutes of, on Sunday, that will guarantee Luiz Inácio da Silva () a fourth term as president. The film “Lula, the Son of Brazil”, from 2009, was not responsible for the victory the following year.
The two episodes, however, reveal the use of cultural manifestations in the construction of political mythologies for electoral purposes. The PT’s idea of obtaining hegemony in all areas of national life is well known.
The person who first spoke about the domination plan was —a leading PT member at the time— at the beginning of 2003. Throughout that year, other people would say the same, with the impertinence of the victors.
Since then, Brazil has gone through scandals that resulted in the improvement of instruments for controlling abuses of power, but the country remains inattentive and somewhat lenient in the face of disrespect when committed at the highest level.
he had to go overboard and reoffend until he lost his power and freedom. Still, he almost won re-election and might not have been in prison if he had faced condescending police, prosecutors and judges.
There is a diffuse feeling in Brazil that certain privileges are allowed for presidents, and there is a certain modesty in pointing them out until they exceed the limits due to reverence for the post. This is in the name of respecting the legitimacy conferred by the ballot boxes.
Prerogative that does not provide safe conduct for unlimited infractions. Not even lies, like the one Lula told on Thursday (5) in an interview with UOL.
He said he would only run as a candidate during the 45 regular campaign days.
“Until then, I will just be president”, he stated in an uninhibited attack on the evidence of the daily use of the position in promoting his own candidacy.
Lula defies rules and manages not to be admonished due to the complacency that protects the myth. But he can’t hide the fact that this makes him a transgressor of the real-life code of ethics.
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