Opinion – Rodrigo Zeidan: Is there dialogue with the PT?

I expect self-criticism from the PT as Estragon and Vladimir expect Godot. There is no chance the party will admit its many mistakes in running the economy, no matter how clear the evidence. Worse still is his paintings’ mania for reinventing history.

This week’s article by Guido Mantega is a work of fiction. The script is always the same: good policies were always made solely and exclusively by the party, with no participation from allies, all crises were blamed on external events and hidden forces, contrary evidence is conveniently forgotten, the word corruption is never discussed, and data is distorted or truncated.

On one thing, however, the second-worst economic manager in our democratic history is correct: any chance of recovery depends on the far right losing the next election.

But, even knowing that publicly the party will keep repeating the litany that it did everything right all along, we can have a decent new Lula government. Why can a party with a history of pride and an ideology trapped in fifth-rate developmentalism do something good for the country? For four reasons: party structure, the success of the first Lula government, difficulty in capturing many of the non-party institutions and renewal of party cadres.

If Lula comes to power, he will take a polarized and divided country, in a gigantic economic crisis. But there is light at the end of the tunnel. Polarization will make the party’s political room for maneuver narrow. It will not be the government of megalomania, of infinite resources thrown down the drain in absurd projects and the transfer of income from the poor to entrepreneurs, for the simple fact that there will be no money for it.

The same framework that enabled the Corruption Acceleration Program (I mean Growth) can serve as a first line of defense against crazy plans and be useful in expediting a new national vaccination program. After all, we’re going to need new rounds of vaccine.

Will the PT be able to assemble a task force to vaccinate with fifth doses as many Brazilians as possible quickly? This is the advantage of an established political party. There is the ability to quickly scale public policies.

The next president has the opportunity to save Brazilians. Literally. The PT is not the barbarism that governs us. But it will take more than a “Letter to the Brazilian People” and a series of empty promises, with no implementation details, for a true socio-economic development program.

With the PT, there is dialogue; with the extreme right, there is only chloroquine and death.

The PT has already put competent people to take care of the economy. The extreme right has economists so disqualified that they publish in predatory journals, in which you pay to publish anything, they invent epidemiological models and create teratological concepts, such as private GDP, GDP quality and other nonsense, like a first-year undergraduate student. would swallow.

There were three PTs. The pragmatic, the ideological and what encouraged corruption. The ideology will never change. What encouraged corruption will not make mea culpa. The ideal would be a third way, but today Lula leads the polls.

Will we see the pragmatic PT again? For the sake of all Brazilians, I hope so.