To truly change Brazil

Hope is the fuel of the future. New Year, new life. Brazil wakes up in 2014 with a desire for change. Polls indicate: 64% of Brazilians want change. Brazil wants to change, Brazil needs to change.

There is a clear exhaustion of a cycle. Brazilian democracy has already given ample proof of its maturity. The alternation of power has been positive in the last 20 years. We have built a better country than we had before redemocratization. But, in 2014, we are facing change.

There are evident symptoms of the loss of transformative capacity of the PT governments. Low growth, exacerbation of co-optation-based presidentialism, exotic and counterproductive foreign policy, creative accounting and high inflation, stagnant productivity, timid actions in partnership with private capital, meager rate of public investment and low operational capacity, bureaucracy and corruption, stagnation of social progress, the highest interest rate in the world, disorganizing interventionism, very low quality in education, 44% of the population without sewage systems, underfunding and mismanagement in healthcare, authoritarian outbursts flirting with media control and confrontation with the Supreme Court. This is no small matter, it is not opposition fantasy. These are facts, this uncomfortable presence in the political landscape called reality. It is reality that demands change.

Aware of its historical role, anchored in its experience, and grounded in its political, technical, and intellectual cadres, the PSDB, through its national president, Senator Aécio Neves, presented a strategic document signaling the construction of a strong political alternative that aims to address the necessary changes and the complex agenda of 21st-century Brazil.

The document entitled “To Truly Change Brazil,” launched in Brasília on December 17th, is based on three essential pillars: restoring trust, promoting citizenship, and fostering prosperity. It is not a government program or a government action plan. The innovative ideas and hallmarks of the future PSDB government, with their details, form, and content, will be reserved for the campaign, primarily during national radio and television broadcasts.

Now, it's a matter of demarcating the field, politically and ideologically, with strategic guidelines, values, and essential concepts. The document aims to strengthen our discourse in the face of the three other camps that are presenting themselves for the presidential succession: the continuity camp led by Dilma, the camp of dissidents from the Lula bloc led by Marina Silva and Eduardo Campos, and the far-left camp headed by Senator Randolfe Rodrigues of PSOL.

The social democratic opposition, bolstered by its transformative practices in municipal, state, and federal governments, enters the game with clear leadership, that of our experienced and skillful pre-candidate Aécio Neves, and with a set of ideas and values ​​present in the text (available at...). www.conversacombrasileiros.com.br).