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Brazil main opposition party elects a new leader and 2014 presidential hopeful
Brazilian opposition unified over the weekend behind Aecio Neves who was elected by a landslide president of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party, PSDB. His naming opens the way for his candidacy to the 2014 presidential election, when President Dilma Rousseff will be bidding for another four years. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesMaybe we need a govern “de direita” to change Mercosul.....or finish him. But this party is corrupt and anti-patriotic. Old guard like FHC, Serra and Alckmin, i don't like........but PT party has many time in power. Time of changes? I dont know yet....
May 21st, 2013 - 08:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0“He presented PSDB as the “party of ethics”...of the transfer of national income to the poor and needy...and of the privatizations”
May 21st, 2013 - 09:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0He's not got a clue! His grandfather does seem to have been a great man (and actually was President for some days, was just too ill to take the oath, like Chavez), but then Mitt Romney's father was a great man! He won't stand a chance against Dilmita =)
Aecio can stand on his own feet while Dilmita can't show up in TV without Lula and massive propaganda. Remember Marina Silva came out of nowhere with an ecoterrorist agenda and got almost 20% of the votes. Public is getting tired, Dilma is not a charismatic leader and the approval polls are fake. Aecio has his chance and the FHC alliance can remind the old folks who made Plano Real.
May 21st, 2013 - 03:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Nevez is a good guy. He could go all the way to President exept for 'the grand coalition of the Left' where jobs for the boys are part of the game.
May 21st, 2013 - 09:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If he follows in FHC's footsteps I will have little problem.
And as for corruption (#1), we have to have a cold dispassionate look at the vast corruption that exploded across Brasil when Lula assumed the role of President.
Since the last embarassing debacle of Serra, I have watched Nevez closely; he could be even better than Dilma ... though I doubt he will get the vote.
#3 “Aecio can stand on his own feet”
May 21st, 2013 - 10:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So its just a nice o-incidence his gradad was a national hero, aye right!
“while Dilmita can't show up in TV without Lula”
You're confusion TV show with rally, and needing him with having him on side =)
“Remember Marina Silva came out of nowhere with an ecoterrorist agenda”
So protecting the rainforest is comparable to 9/11 to you, nice to know!
“Dilma is not a charismatic leader”
Supposedly not, yet more popular than almost any who supposedly are!
“and the approval polls are fake”
You just made that up didn't you?
“Aecio has his chance and the FHC alliance can remind the old folks”
What's that about being able to stand on his own two feet again...
Geoff, do you read the book “Privataria Tucana”? Eu tenho medo do que possa acontecer ao Brasil com esses caras de novo no poder. O PT também foi, e acho que continua sendo corrupto, mas pelo menos vimos que a justiça conseguiu julgá-los nos casos que foram descobertos. Já o PSDB sempre conseguiu se safar. Ainda lembro do caso dos guarda-chuvas e das bicicletas quando o Serra era ministro da saúde. Não sei ao certo, mas preciso conhecer mais o homem público chamado Aécio.
May 21st, 2013 - 11:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Hopefully he can unite the opposition and give the PT a run for its money . Time for a change in Brazil . Two terms for Lula and one for Dilma , could be time for an new view on the future of the country . Imagine if the Colorados and Nacionles had united in Uruguay , no Mujica now ! Or if the opposition had united in Argentina , Kirchner would have probably won but not a majority in Congress .
May 21st, 2013 - 11:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@5
May 21st, 2013 - 11:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“So its just a nice o-incidence his gradad was a national hero, aye right!”
When talking about Aecio, people don't link him to his grandad as they automatically do with Dilma and Lula. If one says Dilma the other think of Lula, because she is a puppet and there is no denying. She NEEDS Lula. Aecio is apreciated in richer regions by his own achievments in the state of Minas.
“So protecting the rainforest is comparable to 9/11 to you, nice to know!”
I admit I exagerated. The correct world is neomalthusianism.
“You just made that up didn't you?”
Maybe she really had 78% approval when 29 different categories of public services were on strike. Universities stopped for months.
“What's that about being able to stand on his own two feet again...”
I meant he can stand on his own, but it is a welcome move to have acept FHC support. He can't simply think he does not need the votes in Northern and Northeastern regions, they might be decisive. South and Southeast (the most populous) will give him tons of votes. “Choque de Gestão” for the whole Brazil.
:)
#8 “If one says Dilma the other think of Lula, because she is a puppet and there is no denying. She NEEDS Lula”
May 22nd, 2013 - 09:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0This is a big myth, sure she got a hand up from him but in my assesment is actually much more talented =)
“Aecio is apreciated in richer regions”
Like the Tories and UKIP over here...
“I admit I exagerated”
Cool =) As for me, I admit I don't know enough in depth to take a definitive position on Marina's take on the Amazon; I know things have got better under the PT than with the logger friendly FHC, though if she endorses malthusianism or anti-development I wouldn't agree with that...
“Maybe she really had 78% approval when 29 different categories of public services were on strike. Universities stopped for months”
Yes, maybe she does. There's a difference between personally liking the President, especially a left one, and being satisfied with your own boss and working conditions =)
“I meant he can stand on his own, but it is a welcome move to have acept FHC support”
A bit like Lula and Dilma then =)
Brasileiro (#6)
May 22nd, 2013 - 01:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0A Privataria Tucana (2011) is a political expose of the Brazilian business community that, in collusion and backstage, stole public money.
It is also a denunciation of the ‘privatizations’ programme established by Fernando Henrique Cardoso during the fifth civilian government following the military regime (64-85).
Its revelations name hitherto shielded individuals.
The author was an investigative newspaper and magazine journalist, who investigated a political group that aimed to discredit the now PSDB candidate and former Minas Governor, Aetius Neves.
He teased-out a mass of corruption, producing documents, offshore accounts, copies of cheques and contracts, and photos of places where the implicated politicians siphoned off millions for private gain and also to finance their election campaigns.
I have not read it, but there is no translation into English.
I guess you remember Fernando Collor’s impeachment and sacking in 1991 and the role of Paulo César Farias, his eminence gris (a good read).
And I guess you have lived through the incredible corruptions of the Lula coalition governments.
Dilma is struggling ‘manfully’ to right these decades (.. nay, centuries!) of corruption.
So, whatever the shady history of our leaders,
and whatever party that promotes them,
when they come to power it is our duty to support their good deeds and denounce their corruptions.
@10 Geoff,
May 22nd, 2013 - 06:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Agreed. Thanks friend. Beautiful explanation of the book and facts!
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