Brazil: Unemployment levels from the 90s are back.

The newspapers could no longer hide what the population had already been noticing and feeling firsthand: mass unemployment was once again haunting the country.

The scene is bleak.

In every city in the country, long lines of unemployed people form at the doors of companies and agencies, people searching for any opportunity, even with lower pay than before and for jobs below their skill level. All just to survive.

This desperate situation is the result of a government formed by an alliance between Temer and the PSDB party of Alckmin, Doria, and Bruno Covas, which put the country up for sale, cut ties with trading partners, suffocated the population, made labor relations more precarious, reduced social investments, and practically sank the country's investments.

Let's look at the numbers: unemployment today exceeds 13% in the country, which is equivalent to more than 14 million people looking for a job. Another 25 million Brazilians are living only on odd jobs and sporadic work, without access to rights or guaranteed income. Furthermore, the time a person spends unemployed has increased and now exceeds 12 months, far beyond the time they receive unemployment benefits.

For comparison, during Lula's presidency, unemployment reached 5%, considered by economists to be at full employment, as this rate reflects people transitioning careers and seeking higher salaries. Today, in contrast, the total wage bill has decreased, and the available jobs offer low salaries.

Lula generated an average of 1,8 million jobs per year, leaving his government with a record of 14.725.039 formal jobs created, 50% more than Sarney, Collor, Itamar, and FHC combined. Temer and the PSDB managed the feat of eliminating jobs and throwing people into informality, hunger, and misery, in addition to increasing the cost of living and ending policies to increase the minimum wage and weakening programs such as Bolsa Família, Saúde da Família, and Minha Casa Minha Vida.

In Greater São Paulo, the situation is even worse: Alckmin left office with an unemployment rate above 17%, and cities governed by Temer's friends, such as Guarulhos under Mayor Guti, have over 20% unemployment.

All of this shows that there is only one way to reverse this social situation: to allow free and democratic elections, with Lula participating as the legitimate representative of the popular will, capable of revoking the measures of Temer and his friends and leading the country back to the path of development.