By Aloizio Mercadante *
When former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva got out of prison in November 2019, the Right-wing political forces tried to create a climate in which he would be contaminated by a climate of revenge, anger and revenge. But, in the historic interview with the Metalworkers Union of São Bernardo do Campo, Lula showed the opposite of that. What we saw that day was the strength of a statesman, generous, with an open heart, without rancor and with qualities enriched by the time of unfair imprisonment, as happened with Mandela, Gandhi and other giants of history.
In his address to the independent media this week, Lula consolidated the progress of his victory in the presidential elections in October. First, because the PT was strengthened. There is a popular feeling that, like Lula, the PT was persecuted and that the Party’s mistakes are much smaller than the historic contribution of our project to the country. Therefore, the PT is the preferred party of 28% of voters, while the runners-up appear with only 2% and many do not even appear.
The PT also regained the vitality of actions, of formulation and discussions. The Perseu Abramo Foundation, for example, has had 25 Public Policy Monitoring Centers for five years, made up of former managers, former ministers, researchers and leaders in all strategic areas of the Brazilian state. Likewise, the PT sectors have just elected new secretaries and coordinators through direct voting.
At the same time, in the interview, Lula showed awareness of the need to expand alliances in the field democratic. Lula signaled a willingness to dialogue and to build a campaign with other political forces and broader leaderships than in the previous scenario, isolating the authoritarian, anti-civilizing and obscurantist extreme right. The reconstruction of Brazil will require the political defeat of the coup and the effort to build bridges with democratic forces beyond the PT.
It is in this sense that Lula has sought an understanding with the historic PSDB, in which Mário Covas was a great exponent. It is a fact that, since redemocratization, the PT and the PSDB have always disputed and had important programmatic differences, especially with the adhesion of the toucans to the neoliberal agenda and the Washington Consensus. However, this dispute has always been guided by respect for democracy, recognition of the results of the elections, and those who acted as opposition were faithful to their programs and commitments, but valued and respected the sovereignty of the popular vote.
This understanding was broken in the 2014 elections, when the defeated PSDB candidate, Aécio Neves, was one of the protagonists of the coup and rose to the Federal Senate tribune to say that the then elected president, Dilma Rousseff, would not govern . The result of the 2016 coup d’état was the withdrawal of rights and the rise of Bolsonarism, supported, even by important sectors of the PSDB, who carried out Bolsonaro’s electoral campaign in 2018 and raffled the candidacy of Geraldo Alckmin. However, there are sectors of the historic and democratic PSDB that did not surrender to Bolsonarism and with which we need to dialogue.
The attraction of Geraldo Alckmin promoted by Lula to our project can also be decisive for the election of Fernando Haddad in São Paulo. In this case, a national victory with a large advantage in votes and the conquest of the government of the state of São Paulo for the first time in history would mean a huge shift in the correlation of forces, considering the economic and political weight of the state.
But as Lula consolidates his victory and extends his advantage in all polls, there is a hypocritical effort by conservatives to try to separate Lula and the PT. Lula is the great builder and main leader of the PT and the PT has always been at the side of the former president, even in the most difficult moments, having been the backbone of Lula’s governments.
The PT, a party with history, marks, scars and a deep democratic commitment, is aware that the strength of the base and popular mobilization will be fundamental to put the poor back on the budget, to progressively tax income and wealth, to face hunger, poverty, the precariousness of the world of work and, above all, the brutal social inequality in our country. Therefore, we are consolidating an agenda that addresses the real problems of the people, building emergency and structural measures that promote the reconstruction and transformation of Brazil. This is also why Lula advances!
*Aloizio Mercadante is a former minister and president of the Perseu Abramo Foundation.
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