"Marina gave in to the most reactionary sectors."

Renato Dias, morning diary - With beautiful blue eyes, afro hair, and an unmistakable southern Brazilian accent, the lovely Luciana Genro tells Diário da Manhã exclusively that former Environment Minister Marina Silva (PSB) has surrendered to the private market and does not represent anything new. A lawyer and professor, the Socialism and Liberty Party (PSOL) candidate for the presidency endorses the proposal to hold an exclusive National Constituent Assembly to approve a Political Reform with public financing of electoral campaigns.

Besides approving the social regulation of the media, she is currently the only one advocating for a review of the Amnesty Law. This is so that the serious human rights violations that occurred during the civil-military dictatorship (1964-1985) do not go unpunished. Her reference point is the Inter-American Court of Human Rights resolution that classifies torture as an imprescriptible crime and enforced disappearance, a method universalized in the Southern Cone in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, as a crime of permanent, continuous kidnapping, not subject to amnesty or pardon.

The daughter of the current governor of Rio Grande do Sul, Tarso Genro, a member of the Workers' Party (PT) and considered the most qualified and left-leaning figure in the institutional PT, who is running for re-election with a real chance of winning, she has already served as a state and federal deputy. Along with Heloísa Helena, the former senator who was prominent in the Mensalão Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPMI), a scandal that shook the PT ranks during the turbulent year of 2005, she started a split within the Workers' Party and founded PSOL in 2014, a party that currently has three federal deputies and one senator.

History

A member of the internal tendency Socialist Left Movement (MES), which is influenced by the ideas of the Ukrainian revolutionary, born in 1879 in Yanovka, but who led the red insurrection of October 1917 in Russia, Lev Davidovich Bronstein, Leon Trotsky, the former parliamentarian affirms to Diário da Manhã, under the watchful eyes of socialist activists Weslei Garcia, Cíntia Dias, Elber Sampaio, Reinaldo Pantaleão, Henrique Lemos and Fernando Leite, that socialism is still a possible utopia. A radical socialist who dreams of a new tomorrow.

Marina Silva

This is the path to maintaining the status quo, or even making it worse. The policy proposed by Marina Silva—maintaining the economic tripod of the "Fernando Henrique Cardoso Era"—of fiscal responsibility, floating exchange rates, and inflation targets, will lead to austerity measures in public spending. This contradicts the sentiment expressed in the streets during the public demonstrations of May, June, and July 2013, which called for more funds for healthcare, quality education, and decent public transportation. Marina Silva proposes the opposite: containing spending to achieve a primary surplus. In simpler terms: saving public money to pay interest on the public debt.

Central Bank Independence
Marina Silva's proposal for the independence of the Central Bank means transferring, on paper, the country's monetary and financial policy to the market, to financial capital, to banks and markets. This will define jobs, credit, and inflation. It means relinquishing the constitutional right to effectively govern Brazil.

Profile
When Marina Silva left the PT (Workers' Party), we sought her out to establish a dialogue. We believed she was making a break to the left in relation to the PT, as we did with the creation of the Socialism and Liberty Party (PSOL). She refused to govern with Sarney or Collor, and refused to accept the continuation of Fernando Henrique Cardoso's economic policies. She told us she didn't identify with the left or with PSOL. According to her, her break was to unify the PT and PSDB (Brazilian Social Democracy Party). Today, the proposals Marina Silva presents are consistent with the platform she had when she left the PT.

PSB's flexibility
The relaxation of her program is the result of yielding to pressure. She surrendered to agribusiness by defending GMOs. Marina Silva had already yielded to pressure from sugar mill owners, stating that it was necessary to increase the price of ethanol. The former minister backed down in relation to bankers when defending the autonomy of the Central Bank. He yielded to the most reactionary sectors of national politics and threw his LGBT program and the fight against homophobia in the trash 24 hours after four tweets from Pastor Silas Malafaia.

Forecasting
If she's already giving in to these pressures before winning the elections, imagine what will happen when Marina Silva is in power!

PSOL strategy
The strategy is to increase our representation in Congress. The idea is to strengthen PSOL in the states. My mission is to help the party develop in Goiás (with Weslei Garcia, Cíntia Dias, Elber Sampaio, Fernando Leite, Henrique Lemos, Reinaldo Pantaleão). The tactic is to double our federal representation and triple our state representation. Regardless of the election results, however, PSOL will continue its urban and rural social struggles. To change Brazil.

Political differences
Total difference (between Luciana Genro, Marina Silva, Aécio Neves, and Dilma Rousseff). They (and Aécio Neves) defend an economic policy that benefits banks. In 2014, banks increased their profits. A policy that prioritizes the payment of interest on the public debt. An illegitimate debt. A debt that needs to be audited. Independently. In addition to maintaining a tax system that favors capital and shifts the burden of the crisis onto the working class.

Political reform
The PSOL (Socialism and Liberty Party) advocates for a Political Reform through a National Constituent Assembly exclusively dedicated to addressing the issue. This includes approving exclusive public financing of electoral campaigns and combating the abuse of economic power. The Consulta Popular (Popular Consultation) and the MST (Landless Workers' Movement) have launched, and we support, a movement for a Constituent Assembly exclusively dedicated to approving Political Reform. This aims to end private financing, inequality in television and radio airtime, and the sale of parties to powerful interests... An exclusive Constituent Assembly to implement structural reforms... This is fundamental for achieving true democracy!

Federalization
Federalizing Celg is necessary to ensure an adequate energy supply. However, it's essential to guarantee the rights of workers and users, as well as putting an end to abusive tariff increases.

Power project
Strategic sectors of the economy should remain under state control.

Civil-military dictatorship
Our struggle is to ensure that the Amnesty Law (promulgated on August 28, 1979, by João Baptista Figueiredo, the then-president) does not become an obstacle to the criminal prosecution of those public agents responsible for crimes against humanity, heinous crimes such as torture, murder, and enforced disappearances. This is a determination of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, to which Brazil voluntarily adhered.

Socialism
Without a doubt. Socialism will always be a historical possibility. As long as capitalism continues to fail, maintaining its determination to perpetuate exploitation, social and income inequality, and the chasm between rich and poor.

2016
If my father is re-elected governor of Rio Grande do Sul (it's Tarso Genro), I won't be able to run for any office.