Monday, April 18, 2011

Lula cherishes the dream of founding a large Brazilian Progressive Party

When Lula came to power in 2003 from his Workers' Party (PT), PT said that would never come to power without Lula, and Lula would not have gone up the ramp of the Planalto presidential palace, where he ruled for the past eight years, without the party. However, this axiom has become old. It remains true that the PT without Lula would crumble, but so is that Lula has his own power and light, the PT does not need to survive.

Today there Lullism, which could be the embryo of exmandatario dream of creating a new party. According to the blog of Josias de Souza, one of the best informed journalists in Brazil, Folha de São Paulo, Lula has entrusted to his intimates that he has not ruled out his dream, which, in effect, what would you like to create a new And most progressive.

Only alternative, if the creation of viable new party was revealed he would like to create a "broad front of parties" to act together in Congress. The news is significant because it contradicts the widespread thesis that Lula had decided, for their future, become an international lecturer (has already made 10 trips outside of Brazil in the first three months as president) and inspiring a foundation for African problems .

It seems that what really would like, and what is already thinking, is to return to power. This could happen in 2014, depending on how the government of his successor Dilma Rousseff and the agreements that both can achieve. Lula has said publicly that he Rousseff and "eat lunch together every 15 days." It is significant that Lula is interested in participating actively, from the PT, in the ongoing political reform in Congress.

This is a key project for the political future of Brazil, with more than 30 games, impossible to control in Congress and were the cross of Lula during his two governments, because even his allies are revealed when infidels vote Projects of the Executive. Lula has looked at this reform in order to reposition itself.

The news that Lula dreams of returning to power coincides curiously with the dust raised by former wealth Fernando Cardoso, founder and intellectual leader of the Party of Brazilian Social Democracy (PSDB), in opposition. In a long and thoughtful article, the sociologist, Cardoso has drawn the lines of what should be the opposition in Brazil, key non-populist, social democratic, but in a more like a European.

In the article, the president reminded his party that is emerging in the country a new middle class of about 30 million people coming from extreme poverty. That class, which no longer wants to appear poor, has new requirements and politically motivated. With the newcomers, the middle class now meets more than 90 million Brazilians.

Lula, a political lynx knows that the nearly 30 million which, with its social programs, helped to succeed, they could forget about it and find new horizons for the social aspirations. "Poverty is like only the intellectuals, the poor like the rich," said Joancinho Trinta, a famous carnival, which created the concept of the magnificence of the samba schools, created by artists from the favelas of Rio.

This, no doubt, is carrying Lula to arm themselves and organize to keep this political capital. And, as always said, their real world is the ring of politics, to the point that continues to claim that it is costing a lot of effort, "forget that it is no longer president."

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