By , Fernando Henrique Cardoso? Most pressing in the economic sector were Brazil? Real minimum wages were low, and the economic crisis had begun to deter foreign investment. As Cardoso? A metalworker with no schooling, Lula, unlike any other president in Brazilian history, came from the working class. His unpolished Portuguese, lack of formal education, and the socialist platform of the Workers? Party he represented scared many among the elite, while his charisma and humble background endeared him to many among lower and middle classes.
Born into poverty in a rural area in the northeastern state of Pernambuco, Lula? An active member in the workers? He participated in the founding of the Workers? Party PT, Partido dos Trabalhadores , a left-wing political party created in the waning years of the dictatorship. After running unsuccessfully for the presidency in , , and , Lula a new image as he prepared to make his fourth bid in Lula struggled to shake the image of someone lacking experience in public administration.
His Marxist views caused alarm among many who did not know what to expect if Lula were elected President of Brazil. The latest opinion poll from the Datafolha institute on September 17 gave Lula, who was president from , 44 percent voter intentions compared to just 26 percent for Bolsonaro.
The content you requested does not exist or is not available anymore. ON TV. According to Brazilian law, so long as a candidate is eligible by the filing deadline, they can run even if they are then found to be guilty. The deadline for the upcoming presidential race is August , and given all the procedural steps between now and then, Lula will probably be eligible. So what does a potential presidential race between Bolsonaro and Lula look like?
That was always a suspect line of reasoning; recent election results in Argentina, Ecuador and Mexico have shown that voters in Latin America that are disgruntled by the political status quo have no problem swinging back to the left, state finances be damned. The real question then is what people in Brazil will be voting against come those presidential elections in This is the equivalent of Donald Trump having to face off against Bernie Sanders rather than Joe Biden, someone who could win over both his own base and independents.
So Lula returning to politics is actually more likely to make Bolsonaro more fiscally responsible, not less.
Contact us at letters time. We need the state to intervene, but we are not irresponsible. The Workers Party is also — perhaps ironically — quite pleased with the income tax reform the Bolsonaro government recently sent to Congress, which includes a tax cut for low-income individuals and the reintroduction of taxation on dividends — a proposal that has met with furious opposition from financial markets.
In normal times, a Lula plan calling for a bigger state with more taxes on the rich would create a panic in financial markets. The first reason is that the only other option is Bolsonaro, and his liberal credentials in the economic sense these days are highly dubious. For the time being Lula is speaking only with other politicians, even prohibiting his advisors to attend bank meetings until much closer to the election date.
Finally, the last reason is the hope his economic policy would be more like his first term between and less like the years under Dilma Rousseff, who succeeded Lula and led the country into its deepest recession on record. While Lula himself harbors some unpleasant memories of Barack Obama because of the failure on the Iran nuclear deal Brazil tried to set up in , his team has strong affinities with the Democrats on a range of issues, from the environment to economics.
Senator Bernie Sanders offered public support to Lula even while he was in jail, and they will likely meet when Lula next travels to the United States. A key point to watch in the relationship between the Biden administration and a potential Lula government is the choice of the new U. Former ambassador Todd Chapman had close ties to the Bolsonaro family, and his impending departure will come as a relief for the opposition. Both are old politicians facing an authoritarian menace.
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