Lula’s sketch

The preliminary proposal of the government program for Lula’s electoral campaign, presented on Monday (6th) to the parties that support the former president’s candidacy, caused concern in several areas, especially in the private sector.

Although it is a preliminary work, coordinated by former minister Aloizio Mercadante, the text, very abbreviated, points to a government that presupposes a very interventionist State, in the molds that please the Brazilian left and can have positive effects in the hunt for the votes of the most naive.

This PT draft sought to respond to internal and external claims about the inexistence of economic guidelines to be adopted if Lula wins the election in October.

The PT text, with a left-wing look from Lula’s own previous campaigns, refers to ideas of a remote past, without any glimpse of the goals of a modern society, of current times of the changing planet. He clings to outdated ideas, the memory of which can only be explained by the need to produce electoral work, intended only for the presidential campaign.

The responses of workers’ union entities to this document will certainly be contaminated by the blind support of their main leaders for the PT candidate.

The main criticism that responsible sectors of society make of this draft is the proposal to revoke the spending ceiling and the labor reform.

Created during the administration of President Michel Temer, both are modern instruments that, contrary to what PT members and their satellite parties advocate, preserve the economy and bring labor relations, previously based on Mussolini’s fascism, to a level compatible with the times of today, taking into account the reality of labor relations, both from the point of view of employees and employers. The alleged loss of labor rights is a mere electoral invention by Lula. Fiscal irresponsibility would lead the country to a dead end.

The strong statist content of the text is also of concern, insofar as this view, predominant in the 1950s, has already been tested here with widespread failure. Going back on privatization and insisting on the investor State is, in practice, a huge fallacy, not least because this preliminary plan does not explain where the resources it recommends will come from.

It remains to be noted that Lula has not given up on such control of the media, an undemocratic instrument of censorship that the former president tries to disguise with libertarian colors and never explains his real authoritarian intentions. If the reader has doubts, just read the proposal for this “democratization of the media” created in the Dilma administration. You’re going to be scared.