You just watched a trailer for a potential Marina Silva government.

First things first, as the English say. Or "First things first." And the first thing is that you can't call it a "fear campaign" simply remembering that it's irrational to embark on a journey without knowing the conditions or destination, because those conditions could lead to a different outcome than previously planned.

That being said, the next step is to delve into the country's very recent history. And when we use the adjective "very recent," it's in the literal sense: what we are recalling here are two recent cases involving presidential candidate Marina Silva.

The cases in question are Marina's initial proposal to support civil unions between homosexuals, her subsequent withdrawal of that support, and later her downplaying of the withdrawal; and her suggestion that she would not invest in pre-salt oil exploration if elected president, but then her subsequent reversal and statement that she would indeed invest.

Did you understand, reader? She supported homosexuals, then withdrew her support, and finally said she would support them, despite having removed that support from her government program. Then, despite having hinted that she wouldn't invest in the pre-salt oil reserves, she went on to say that she would invest, but "not only" in the pre-salt reserves.

Now, as presidential candidate Luciana Genro of the PSOL party rightly says, on issues like this you need to take a side: either you support full rights for homosexuals or you don't. You have to make that clear. The people want to know so they can like it or not, but they want to know. And therefore, the candidate has an OBLIGATION to answer clearly.

In the case of the pre-salt oil reserves, Marina's stance is even more serious because, with the immense profits it can generate, its exploitation could allow the next generation of Brazilians to live in a diametrically different country, since almost all of that wealth would go towards education.

Marina is slapping Brazilians in the face by not specifying, in detail, what she will do regarding the pre-salt oil reserves. And it falls to the other candidates – including Aécio Neves and Luciana Genro, among others – to demand that the "socialist" inform the country what she will do with what could be Brazilians' passport to the future.

Finally, we arrive at the "cherry on top." This back-and-forth, this will-they-won't-they, this back-and-forth of Marina's actions is nothing more than a preview of what her government would be like, especially due to the intense factional warfare that would ensue, with Congress constantly blackmailing the government and always winning (by force).

Even the PSDB is starting to worry. Despite tacitly offering support to Marina in the second round – while Aécio staged a charade claiming he didn't know about the offer – the party is beginning to worry, knowing it will emerge from the election even weaker, at least at the federal level, and therefore wouldn't be as important in a Marina government, which might even welcome it, but only if it behaves very well...

You have just watched a trailer for a potential Marina Silva government. And the ending of the film was unclear. The viewer was left wondering whether Marina supports homosexuals or the exploitation of the pre-salt oil reserves. And it's the same with practically everything else she says, because nobody (really) understands what she's talking about, even though many think they do.