Beyond the obvious idea of a divided country that marks the press in its entirety here, Brazil seems to have voted this Sunday with almost subtlety and enormous caution, almost like mark the terms of a contract.
He rewarded him with his triumph a vote of confidence a Lula da Silva, albeit limited and much narrower than expected. It was a victory for points only, no knockout
On the other hand strengthened Jair Bolsonaro with a huge collection of votes, but he did not consecrate it. A reproach to its authoritarian and exclusive imprint.
Ballot requirements
However you want to see it, it’s clearly there a great demand behind the tones of this vote. The electorate imposed a distant second round on 30 October. A month of transit that will entail for both contenders, but in particular for the former president who was the winner, to demonstrate with what changes and proposals will conquer the large and determined electorate of the moderate middle class.
A signal, even for the region above where the leaders must take sides at this stage or, on the contrary, succumb.
It is not clear how Bolsonaro will move in this duel, less so if he believes he has been avenged. But the truth is, these urns have created the impression that everything here will go from the center to the right.
The country seems to leave aside every nuance of the old left on which most of the leadership of the PT galloped at the beginning, with the flags of the seventies quite muted in the local pragmatic version, but now I’m at rest.
That is why there is a part of that party that is far from any celebration despite the important five percent it has dedicated to its leader and he left him at the gates of the government.
That defeated wing is the one that will have no space in the future and that characterizes it “Lula is an island surrounded by an ocean on the far right and conservatism ”, as the analyst Octavio Guedes wrote GlobeNewsthe chain and portal that has become more PT at this time.
Some have forgotten too quickly that this movement was practically in a coma after the political and economic mismanagement by Dilma Rousseff, the last president of the PT governments.
The Lava Jato corruption scandal broke out in those governments and ended up cornering Lula himself taking him to jail. People still persistently bill these failures to the party, which is why the dialectical mirage of the law it barely appears in speeches. It is a question of prudence.
If the facility survived along with its initial leadership, it is due to the waste Bolsonaro generated with his authoritarianism and violent language, necessarily opening the search for a different and containing alternative. But, as you can see, it was done with tiptoe steps, allowing the PT to return is true, albeit with huge conditions and such a contract of demands.
This became clear this Sunday. There will certainly be no more ovations in the countryside “Warrior Dima” the one destined, vindictively, that sector to the former president.
Far from Argentina or Venezuela
The novelty of the results and what it entails moving forward, meanwhile, will head-on those who have been considered allies and spectators in the region of the new Lula stage. Those who, as in Argentina, expected a transfusion of the successes of the Brazilian leader to show your restoration.
Analysts from different sectors of the press and diplomatic observers argue here that the PT campaign is very likely go further now markedly by Chavista models or Kirchnerism, among others.
From Lula’s own movement it is noted that a multiplication of criticisms to those models that the former president has already expressed as part of his electoral campaign and which seems to be the only thing that coincides with Bolsonaro. The condemnation mixed with amazement for the abysses built in those two countries gives votes here, even to the PT.
In this sense, in the current Brazilian situation there are reminiscences with the recent experience lived in Chile, in the vote that brought down the new Constitution and that marked clear limits and at the same time demands the place that voters want for their country. . A lesson for President Gabriel Boric, in many ways a young lolaforced to watch his steps carefully.
This search for a liberal center, in the uncontaminated interpretation of the term, for the defense of individual freedoms and the evolutionary right to personal progress with social balance, is spreading as a consequence, among other things, of the economic crises that precipitate politics.
In particular against the chaotic failure of populist experiments, devoid of capital to support the notion of permanent expansion. Hence the appearance of the flag of correction of the economic and fiscal balance, which, as this column has already pointed out, has long been relieved by Lula in front of the surprised gaze of the old militants. The pragmatism commands much more than before.
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Source: Clarin
