The government’s populist offensive in support of President Luiz Inácio da Silva’s campaign () proves that the strength of the State apparatus should not be underestimated. It also reveals the high degree of concern about the risk of not being re-elected.
The government did not drown in the waters of . Despite all the difficulties, he is very much alive and without any constraints in using the public machine to meet his boss’s electoral needs.
Before attributing this practice to the institute of re-election, it is worth remembering that Lula did the devil to elect (PT) and, years before, when there was no possibility of renewing mandates in the Executive, the emedebista broke Banespa to take his supporter to Palácio dos Bandeirantes.
Re-election was instituted in 1997, when the application of abusive methods of power in Brazilian politics had gone far.
The defect, therefore, is not in the rule, but in the people who break the law by going over the brakes imposed on committing abuses. Not to mention tolerance in some cases and, in others, the slowness of punishments.
He resorted to the method and it didn’t work. The coup and denialist misgovernment weighed more on the electorate’s decision. With Lula, it is to be seen which will speak louder: last-minute blessings or the evaluation of the government’s performance in the previous three years in which the sense of urgency was focused on other areas.
In the economy, attention focused on revenue. In politics, the president stuck to his quest for international prominence and the ideological clash with the emerging right. He did not use his political skills to, for example, move forward with a consistent public security project.
Did you face fierce opposition? Just as other governments faced and circumvented the PT’s opposition to essential reforms and the plan that put an end to inflation. Everyone has their own way.
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