Oh Temer, for the love of your country, resign now!

Dear President, your government has failed. Your neoliberal ideology has not withstood the test of reality. Your disapproval ratings are near 100%. Rumors are circulating that, even though you yourself acknowledge the depth of the failure, now accentuated by the imminent threat of a massive economic crisis from abroad, your only reason for remaining in office is to defend yourself against the three investigations launched by the Attorney General's Office and carried out by the Federal Police against you.

What separates us, therefore, from the beginning of a solution to the Brazilian crisis is the existence of these investigations and the voracity of some prosecutors in carrying them out to have the honor, as happened with Lula, of putting a former President of the Republic in jail. However, we can influence the course of history in some way, contrary to what mechanistic Marxists and behaviorists think. We can do this by tying a knot in history. We can help him in a way that will facilitate his resignation.

There is an institution in the Constitution, called Pardon, by which a President of the Republic, in the national interest, can pardon any individual for crimes committed or for the possibility of their commission. I believe that his successor could do this in the name of the people. For those who, resentful of Lula's unjust imprisonment, are shocked by this sweet remedy applied to you, it would also be applied to him, Lula, releasing him immediately from prison. All this could occur based on the sovereignty of Congress and outside the sordid judicial system served by Brazil's flawed justice system, within the framework of a Grand National Pact.

If, in the remote event that your resistance to resigning stems from a genuine concern for your successor, know that the people are prepared to make the transition constitutionally. In record time, as happened with Getúlio's death, Jânio's resignation, and the coup against Jango, Congress is capable of quickly organizing the election of an interim President and Vice-President of the Republic, as mandated by the Constitution. In fact, if Congress is in session, this can happen in 48 to 72 hours. Hence the need for the immediate suspension of the recess.

This President, preferably a technocrat, so that his election escapes partisan squabbles and interest groups, could assure you, even as a candidate, of the institution of Grace for you and President Lula, as soon as he is elected. At the same time, he would announce a complete government program to attack with all the forces of the State the tragedy of high unemployment in Brazil, which, when the underemployed are also counted, reaches about a quarter of the population, as it was in the United States and Germany during the Great Depression.

Save yourself, Mr. President, and save us. Submit your letter of resignation and force Congress to suspend its recess to immediately begin, in an extraordinary session, discussions and deliberations on how to resolve the internal and international crisis, along with the election of the new President and Vice-President of the Republic. With this action, I will once again address you as Your Excellency, a term I have avoided using until now. It will be as Your Excellency, and not as a corrupt individual – in fact, nothing has been proven against you so far – that you can go down in history.