"Brazil was imprisoned and is breaking the chains that were imposed by the coup and the election of the unspeakable one," says José Genoino.
"We have to prevent them from taking it to a second round to try and negotiate the market agenda," argues José Genoíno.
247 - Former federal deputy and former national president of the PT (Workers' Party), José Genoíno, in an interview with Giro das Onze on TV 247, assessed that the elections represent a moment of liberation for the Brazilian people.
“We are living through a moment of cultural and value liberation. What is this culture war? What is this intolerance? It's a kind of massacre. Brazil was imprisoned and is breaking the chains that were the coup and the election of the unspeakable one,” said Genoino.
"And it's worth it for us to build the future. Without fear, without hatred, without revenge, without retaliation, but with Lula as president," he stated.
Genoíno emphasized that the elites "wanted to eliminate us" through a media campaign criminalizing politics and acts of legal persecution.
“This electoral uprising we are experiencing is not just about voting. It's about voting and organizing. It's about the ballot box and the streets. This is the Brazil that stubbornly refuses to return to the past. We are breaking the fear of fear itself,” he emphasized.
Genoino emphasized the importance of defeating the far-right in the first round. “We have to settle this matter in order to win Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo later. We have to prevent them from taking it to a second round to try and negotiate the market's agenda. They [the market] produced the unspeakable and now they want to cleanse the biographies,” said Genoino regarding the demonstrations in defense of democracy by sectors of the business community and those linked to the financial market.
“The country is more destroyed than in 2003, and the front is broader than in that period. We have an extreme right wing that we didn't have in 2003, and part of the population is with it. The extreme right wing of hatred, of proto-fascism and violence, as is happening in Italy. What do we have to do in this context that Lula's government will encompass? I am working to organize a left-wing pole inside and outside parliament, based on a concrete platform of defending the rights of the people, defending another economic model, to talk to Lula, to pressure Lula, to hold Lula accountable. The left must act in an organized way, not to oppose the government, but to hold him accountable, to be vigilant, and to engage in dialogue,” he argued.
And he concludes: “The Brazilian ruling class is preparing a kind of comeback, which is to change something so that nothing changes. We cannot accept that they are just putting a smokescreen on the crisis.”
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