Rui Costa Pimenta: Lula hasn't won yet, and the left needs to take to the streets.

247 - The president of the Workers' Cause Party, Rui Costa Pimenta, stated in an interview with journalist Attuch, editor of TV 247, that the 2022 presidential race will be extremely close in this final stretch and pointed to a certain division within the bourgeoisie. "The objective of big capital was a third way. Then, they adopted a friendly attitude towards Lula. When the results came in, it became clear that Bolsonaro was much stronger. Today, he has all the tools to secure a majority in Congress. Bolsonaro is now very powerful. He swept away the so-called center. Capital's concern is with losing control of the political regime. It's like a Venezuela with the signs reversed," he says.

Rui also said that Lula is being blackmailed by the market. "They want a mortgaged Lula. But the blackmail also reduces Lula's ability to win the election. If Lula gives in to the market's blackmail, he loses the election," he stated. "Lula needs to do, with greater intensity, what he did in 2014, a shift to the left. He needs to mobilize the people. He needs to remove Alckmin and put in union leaders, the MST. Lula needs to present concrete proposals to the people," he pointed out.

In the interview, the president of the PCO also said that Lula should declare himself in favor of religious freedom, but should not engage in gender politics. "The impact of FHC's support is very small in a sector of the middle class. The PSDB members are the fathers of Bolsonarism. They are the ones who clean up their image with their support for Lula," he stated.

In the interview, Rui was cautious. "Lula hasn't won yet and could lose, which would be a disaster for Brazil and for the left," he stated. "I think it's very difficult for him to turn things around in São Paulo," he added.

Rui also said that the PT (Workers' Party) did not create an independent power structure. "It should have its own research institute. I think there should be a Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry into research institutes," he pointed out. "Part of the population sees Bolsonaro as a rebel, and it's possible to imagine the privatization of Petrobras with Bolsonaro's victory," he warned. "There are sectors of the elites afraid of the power Bolsonaro has accumulated. The bourgeoisie is between a rock and a hard place and tends to lean towards the more conservative side. Lula is far from being a unanimous choice within the third-way bloc," he concluded.

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