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Economist, PhD in Production Engineering from Coppe-UFRJ, professor of International Economics at UEPB.

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The reasons for organizing the Movement for the Democratization of Congress

We are inviting you, your relatives, and your friends to participate in this effort to regenerate the Republic.

The reasons for organizing the Movement for the Democratization of Congress (Photo: Reynaldo Stavale)

The country is experiencing its greatest crisis of all time, and the repercussions of the general degeneration of republican institutions are beginning to directly affect us, our families, and our friends. The Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches are crumbling. In the metropolises, human degradation is visible on the streets: millions of people are surviving as underemployed workers and street vendors, or simply lying on the edges of sidewalks, creating an atmosphere of total insecurity, conducive to crime and disorder. What to do?

We cannot give up. We cannot leave the nation adrift, sold to the bandits who put it where it is. It's not just a matter of corruption. It's a matter of indifference to the interests of the people, or the cowardly way they are selling the country to foreigners through a sordid privatization process. The banks are enslaving us: more interest is paid in Brazil than in any other country in the world. The reforms that have been made in the Temer government only serve big capital.

This dramatic situation led us to create the Movement for the Democratization of the National Congress. Why a movement to regenerate Congress? Simply because it is the only one of the three branches, considering the Executive and Judiciary, that is subject to popular renewal. However, we know that the current Congress is one of the most subservient in our history, and there are threats that the majority of deputies and senators will retain their mandates in the next legislature. This, with one caveat: if nothing is done against these trends!

The MDC exists precisely to reverse this trend. We have set as our central objective to win a majority in Congress in the next elections. This will not be the product of the work of one party or another, which, incidentally, are very worn out. It will be the result of the actions of progressive men and women, acting on a supra-partisan basis, performing in opposition to the Temer government, and united in a Decalogue of Commitments that objectively attest to their willingness to fight for the common good.

We are inviting you, your relatives, and your friends to participate in this effort to regenerate the Republic by sharing the website frentepelasoberania.com.br. On the website, you will receive relevant information for your integration into the Movement for the Democratization of Congress. The previous performance of each parliamentarian, deputy, or senator appears in the form of their votes on Temer's projects. Without ideology. Without partisanship. Our common mark is being progressive and, above all, nationalist for the people.

Without xenophobia, we want Brazil for Brazilians, not for the banking opportunists who enslave the people. Join our MDC committees or create your own committee by participating in our discussions. Otherwise, we will be wiped off the map by an electoral contest that has everything but credibility. In fact, without a decent majority in Congress, we will come very close to a civil war since, among the 13 candidates running for president, there is a real possibility of a Nazi in power adopting the colors of the far right.

Setting up the committee is simple: just send the state committee, via email, a list of your committee members, with a minimum of five people and a maximum of an undefined number. The state committee's email address will be available on the website next week. Participants, in alphabetical order, will be listed according to state and identified by name and email. Our expectation is to create a pyramid or large chain to reach hundreds of thousands and millions of participants in the short time leading up to the elections, but also effective beyond that.

* This is an opinion article, the responsibility of the author, and does not reflect the opinion of Brasil 247.