Campos: 'Dilma's alliances are heading towards a mess'

Pernambuco 247 - The governor of Pernambuco and presidential candidate for the PSB party, Eduardo Campos, once again harshly criticized the government of President Dilma Rousseff (PT) this Friday, the 20th. According to him, the current PT administration is heading towards a conservative, traditional alliance. "This political arrangement will not bring anything new to a cycle of innovation that is being demanded by society. It's marching towards something that's like jelly," Campos quipped during an interview with Rádio Jornal, from Jornal do Commercio.

"This is not a personal criticism, it's about looking to the future," added the governor of Pernambuco. Since he began his political and business campaign with leaders, the president of the PSB has defended the administration of former president Lula as one of the main hallmarks of his discourse. This time was no different, as he compared the government of the PT's top leader with that of President Dilma.

"We saw with great enthusiasm a government that would know how to take Lula's achievements and carry them forward, just as Lula knew how to take FHC's achievements, not dismantle them, and expand upon them. He increased employment, technical education, rescued the shipbuilding industry...", stated Eduardo Campos, without highlighting any achievements of Dilma Rousseff, against whom he did not spare attacks.

"We hoped she could employ a long-term planning vision, mature the issue of Brazil's strategic project, and institutionalize the achievements," he declared. According to the head of the Pernambuco Executive branch, a "crisis of expectations" has been generated with Dilma as president. "If Brazil's economy shuts down, we will undo what has been done. Those who put a down payment on a house, bought a motorcycle, may soon find themselves in dire straits. That is the risk we are running."

The governor also stated that "Brazil needs to fulfill the duty demanded by the economy and society." "The economy says: we need greater productivity to preserve jobs. The other message is what the streets are saying: people want better quality public services," he declared.

Marina and Aécio

Amid speculation that PSB and Rede Sustentabilidade were having disagreements in some states, such as São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Campos once again praised the alliance. "People said that [Rede] was an alternative group, full of philosophy, they said that clearly, but in the first programmatic meeting, we opened it to the press and showed what makes us different," he said. "We defined what makes us different to show our unity," he added.

After the Rede party had its registration denied by the Electoral Court for failing to gather enough signatures to officially create the party, former minister Marina Silva announced her affiliation with the PSB, thus also sealing the union between the two parties. According to the governor of Pernambuco, Marina "took an action to help change the country, safely."

Regarding his rapprochement with the PSDB presidential candidate, Senator Aécio Neves (MG), Campos stated that it aims to build a broader political debate. "I have a dialogue with Aécio and I think many people in his campaign deserve a lot of respect. We need to bring together, in Brazil, people who have something to contribute to the future of the country," he suggested. For him, "we cannot think that just because Aécio is not in our base, he is worse than us," because "it is this type of thinking that is alienating the population from politics."