Lula’s current in the PT defends ‘broad’ alliance in Congress – 02/13/2023 – Politics

Current of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the PT, the trend CNB (Building a New Brazil) presented a proposal for a resolution that defends a pact that unites “all democrats and broad forces” in the National Congress.

By proposing the pact for democracy, however, the document does not mention the coup acts that took place in Brasília on January 8, nor does it address the government’s relationship with the military.

The basic text says that it is necessary to forge in the National Congress “a broad majority pact” that opposes “the police state and the power complex that tries to criminalize politics and destroy democracy.”

The document proposes the reconstruction of legal frameworks and the deepening of the “Rule of Law and individual and democratic guarantees”.

“It is necessary to forge a broad majority pact in the House and Senate that unites all Democrats and very broad forces that oppose the police state and the power complex that tries to criminalize politics and destroy democracy, rebuilding legal frameworks and deepening the state. of Law and individual and democratic guarantees”, says the text.

The proposed resolution will still be discussed and voted on at a meeting of the National Board that will take place this Monday (13th) in Brasília. The base text was presented to the party on Friday night (10) and may undergo changes with proposals from the other currents of the acronym, even if they are in the minority.

This Monday’s meeting is the first in-person meeting of the party summit since 2020 and the first already in the Lula government.

The PT’s majority strength document also criticizes the Central Bank, stating that its “high interest rate policy” did not control inflation “and prevents the construction of an investment path for the country’s development”

The text also says that the issues of fiscal and monetary policy “are at the center of the debate”, classifies the spending ceiling as a “tragedy” and claims that it was never respected and only served as a smokescreen to “justify the disregard for needs of the Brazilian people”.

The text also says that scandals were engendered against PT governments, the PT and its leaders to criminalize politics and destroy democracy — and that this is a project.

“A project articulated from the outside, in a ‘soft’ war involving social networks, various business media and the co-opted part of the Brazilian judiciary, whose greatest expression was Judge Sergio Moro and his team of prosecutors”, says the document.

The text criticizes former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL), although without mentioning him by name, and Bolsonarism, stating that the political force is “guardian of the big house and the whip of the slave quarters”.

“Bolsonarism is not an isolated phenomenon, and the former president, with his coughing and his inhuman and disgusting actions, represents a large part of a country marked by iniquities, inequalities, prejudices and violence”, says the text.

At this Monday’s meeting, six other resolution proposals from other party currents will be discussed. That of the Socialist Resistance claims that Bolsonaro’s government brought back to Brazil “the nightmare of the civic-military dictatorship”.

“Exalting this sad moment in Brazilian history, asking for its return, honoring the torturers, as he himself did in the coup against President Dilma, and violently and organizedly repudiating the democratic electoral result of 2022”, says the text.

Socialist Democracy, on the other hand, points out in its resolution four points that limit the full application of Lula’s government program, among them the relationship between Bolsonarism and the Armed Forces and the “conservative and physiological majority” of Congress.

Still at the meeting of the party’s summit, the replacement of the staff of the national directory and the Perseu Abramo Foundation that became part of the Lula government, which includes the extension of the mandate of president Gleisi Hoffmann and of the other state directorates, will be discussed.

Deputy Henrique Fontana should assume the position of general secretary of the PT, replacing Paulo Teixeira, minister of Agrarian Development; Senator Humberto Costa should become one of the party’s vice-presidents, replacing Márcio Macedo, minister of the General Secretariat of the Presidency.

Paulo Okamotto, former president of Sebrae and Lula’s ally, should become president of the Perseu Abramo Foundation in place of Aloizio Mercadante, who heads the BNDES.