Porto Alegre is a city that regrets its actions.

Porto Alegre is a city filled with regret. Anyone who goes to the streets and talks to people notices the regret of the Porto Alegre population regarding the election of Nelson Marchezan Júnior [PSDB] as mayor of the capital of Rio Grande do Sul.

Municipal public employees, who distribute materials and inform the community about the mayor's blunders during their work breaks, bear witness to this sentiment that is strongly spreading among the population.

Along with regret, there is also revulsion at the truculent, hateful, and authoritarian way in which this pro-PSDB party member, a friend of Aécio Neves, governs the city. He has unleashed a war against everything and everyone.

Not even during the administrations of mayors appointed by the military regime, of whose dictatorship his father was a leading figure, did the city experience such a pattern of institutional violence and disrespect for the rule of law.

Marchezan Júnior acts like a sovereign: he decrees territories under "special jurisdiction" to prevent protests by public employees; he attacks freedom of expression and opposes the workers' union's demonstration in the press; he lies about the City Hall's financial reality to pay employees' salaries in installments; he disobeys a court order and thus commits a crime of responsibility; he disrespects and offends public servants, councilors, secretaries, and authorities in his government.

He has a divisive temperament – ​​on average, he suffered almost two high-ranking staff losses per month – and is also intolerant of people who think differently. He incites hatred and violence when, as mayor, he should be promoting social dialogue, democratic coexistence, and political tolerance.

In Porto Alegre, Marchezan represents the agenda of the coup perpetrated in 2016 by the group of Temer, Padilha, Cunha, Geddel, Aécio and FHC with the active support of foreign capital and the USA.

His administration is aligned with the agenda of civilizational regression, racism, contempt and abandonment of the poor, privatization and profit generation for private groups, destruction of public services, and handing over public administration to consultancies created by large economic groups to shape and manipulate the public sector according to their interests.

Never before has lying been so effectively employed as a method of governance. The bizarre scheme dubbed a "talent pool" for selecting executive positions is the greatest proof of this.

This fallacy, presented as “A modern strategic human resource management system that prioritizes the technical and meritocratic criteria of candidates."It was nothing more than a propaganda trick propagated by the terrible journalism of RBS: only party agents of the governing coalition were appointed, along with many MBL militants who occupied the Parcão with their green-and-yellow shirts [in Mussolini's Italy they were the black shirts] to shout for the hero Eduardo Cunha and defend the fraud of..." impeachment.

Porto Alegre, a city that at the beginning of this century radiated to the world the noble values ​​of participation, diversity, plurality, democracy, peace, social inclusion, citizenship, humanity, and tolerance, regrets its choice in the last election.

A significant portion of the minority of voters who elected Marchezan Júnior in 2016 – 2 out of every 3 voters did not vote for him – have stopped supporting him and have begun to criticize him loudly.

The work of clarifying the situation that municipal public officials are doing in their dialogue with the population is having an effect. Marchezan is becoming politically and socially isolated.

The population has already understood that the war Marchezan has waged against public employees is, in reality, a war to destroy public services and citizenship rights; a war that is destroying the city's economy and the future of Porto Alegre. City council members who turn a blind eye to this reality will not only be making a mistake, but will be committing political suicide.