Globo's gesture towards the PT is intended to isolate Lula.
What Globo is proposing is to isolate the popular wing within the PT (Workers' Party) in order to form a bourgeois party that sees no harm in allying itself with the coup plotters.
Globo journalist Ascânio Seleme made a gesture in favor of an alliance with a sector of the left in his article, published this Saturday, the 11th, entitled "It's time to forgive the PT"In it, the columnist states that "there is no way for a nation to rediscover itself if 30% of its population is systematically rejected." "That is the magnitude of the problem that Brazil needs to face and overcome. It signifies..." portion of the country that votes for and supports the Workers' Party "Under any circumstances," he justified.
At first glance, it appears to be self-criticism from the newspaper – which persecuted the PT (Workers' Party) throughout its years in power and during the development of the coup – however, Globo itself makes it clear that this is not the case.
Seleme states that “no one doubts that the wrongdoings committed have already been amply punished. The party had a former president and its greatest leader imprisoned, and a president prevented from continuing to govern,” referring to Lula and Dilma. “Other historical leaders were also imprisoned or permanently removed from politics,” such as José Dirceu, José Genoino, and others unjustly convicted by the bourgeoisie.
"But The PT is bigger than that. and, as already mentioned, For thieves, there is the law.“...continues the columnist. What he means is that the PT is not limited to the “thieves” Lula, Dilma, and Dirceu, but “is bigger than that,” with good citizens (to use a right-wing expression). And it is these latter who should “be forgiven” and included in the national scene.”
"Those who believe in and support the PT are the majority of the party's long-term electorate." not those who were caught in the two major corruption scandals that marked the PT administrations“Therefore,” he argued. Thus, the majority of PT supporters are not those linked to Lula and Dilma (who are supposedly corrupt), whom Globo is once again attacking with lies, but those who support another sector – which the columnist does not specify.
For him, it is precisely this "political group, perhaps the strongest and most sustainable in Brazilian party history, that must be readmitted to the national debate." "It's past time for PT members to be reintegrated," he emphasized.
Globo advocates for a united front with the right wing of the PT (Workers' Party).
As is clear, the defense of a "pardon" for the Workers' Party members is not due to the fact that for all these years they spread lies about the party and its main leaders, who were targets of... fraudulent operations, such as Lula's arrest and the impeachment of Dilma. On the contrary, these frauds and lies continue to be defended by Globo, which only wants to forgive a sector of the PT. with those who believe it's possible to form an alliance in defense of democracy.
"To imagine that the party will eternally repeat the same mistakes of the past. It's a simple, easy, and wrong way of seeing the world. Mistakes mature people, institutions, and political parties."It's not possible to look at the PT and see only corruption," Globo argues. In other words, Seleme claims that the PT doesn't only contain Lula and Dilma (the corruption), but also "mature" sectors, which are different and with whom a united front can be formed.
And indeed, the article is a broad advocate for change within the party:
"Once this stage, which is easier, is over," It will also be necessary to overcome the authoritarian tendencies that were once sown in the heart of the PT and flourished.There are many examples, such as the attempt to censor the press through a certain “external control of the media”, of replacing the justice system with "mediation tools" in cases of aggression against human rights, or replacing administrative management with "popular councils"".
Besides the widespread and blatant lies that the Globo journalist is promoting, it's clear that... change The argument being advocated is for a party much more aligned with right-wing policies. In other words, a Moderate PT, that does not attempt to democratize the media and increase popular control over institutions; a PT tucano.
It is with this pro-PSDB PT (Workers' Party) that Globo wants to ally itself, and it is this sector that it wants to "forgive." The article's title could be: "It's time to forgive the PT, except Lula and his allies." That would certainly be more sincere. In any case, the article is, once again, an attempt to isolate Lula and the Lulaist wing within the party in order to promote a front with the right wing.,“moderate” and pro-PSDB.
Lula and Dilma, for example, have already openly positioned themselves. against a front with the PSDB and other coup-supporting parties. On the other hand, the former PT presidential candidate Fernando Haddad appears as a defender of this policy within the party, relying on governors and certain parliamentarians.
However, it's worth noting that the Lula wing is the legitimate wing of the PT (Workers' Party). It is primarily Lula who connects the PT to the rest of the people and the working class, relying on unions, social movements, and a segment of the impoverished population that has managed to improve its quality of life through the reforms promoted by him and Dilma.
Thus, what Globo is proposing é Isolate the popular wing within the PT to form a bourgeois parliamentary party.a party that sees no harm in itself to ally with the capitalist parties that promoted the coup d'état. and therefore are Those responsible for Jair Bolsonaro, for the return of hunger, for unemployment, for privatizations, etc..
This is one more An offensive to consolidate the "broad democratic front" with the political bandits. from PSDB, PDT, PSB, Rede and others. As I stated in other articles, a front to maintain Bolsonaro and his policies.
* This is an opinion article, the responsibility of the author, and does not reflect the opinion of Brasil 247.
