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  GeoffWard2

  It is a pity that FHC is too old to stand again for President.
  
  He is right to choose this time to press Dilma on the matter of institutionalised corruption; as the elder statesman, he can do this.
  
  His key statement is that she needs to address the gravy-train pulling 12 carriages - ”she needs to alter the different (12) parties’ support for the ruling coalition.”
  
  Most major parties in Brasil have signed up to be part of the problem rather than part of the solution.
  
  With virtually every political party signed up to the idea that 'if we all do it we can do it for ever,' FHC is absoluterly right that the very structure of Brasilian corrupt politics and the Brasilian corrupt administrative edifice has to be pulled down and reconfigured.
  
  I wholeheartedly support Dilma's undeclared campaign, but it is not addressing the CORE problem.
  
  FHC has 'said that which cannot be spoken'
  and has publically challenged Dilma (in the nicest possible way) to address the CORE problem.
  
  On her own she cannot do it; in harness with FHC (as opposed to the official Opposition) it progressively becomes an option as individuals and then parties, one by one, declare the break with the past.
  
  It will be interesting to see which parties press first for a 'General Corruption Amnesty'.
  
  Oh, I hope FHC has the years left to write the definitive history of these mad, mad and o-so-bad years.

  Nov 18th, 2011 - 07:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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