'It's not Lula who is on trial, but this shitty government,' says Valter Pomar.
The historian and Workers' Party activist demanded a more "offensive" stance from Lula's campaign: "we have to call on supporters to take to the streets, to stop being defensive."
247 - In an interview with TV 247, the Workers' Party historian Valter Pomar stated that the 2022 presidential election will be a "judgment" of Jair Bolsonaro's (PL) government, and not of what the governments of former president Lula (PT) were like.
He demanded a more active stance from the PT's militants in the campaign. "It's about expanding mobilization and radicalizing the political positioning. We can't think we're going to confront these people with speeches of love. When you transmit this type of guidance to the base, you're saying: 'guys, they're radicalizing but let's stay home and let's orderly show up on election day'. This type of guidance doesn't help, because there's a dispute underway in Brazilian society and in recent months Bolsonaro has managed to increase his voting intentions and reduce his rejection. And in the next two weeks they're going to play hardball in that regard."
"We have to call on the activists, the supporters, to go to the streets, debate politics, and abandon the defensive posture that has prevailed until now, of playing it safe, standing still. We have to adopt a more offensive discourse, along the lines of what Lula did on the night of the 7th, dotting the i's and crossing the t's, attacking the other side, putting them on the defensive, demanding answers from them. We cannot work with the idea that the population will judge our government of 2003 and 2010. The population has to judge this shitty government that is in power now, and for that to happen we have to attack mercilessly," he concluded.
Pomar also criticized Lula's campaign. "In some sectors, a tone that is below what is necessary prevails."
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