In Bahia, Dilma asks: 'Why didn't they do it before?'

Bahia 247 - In Bahia, the state that gave her her highest vote count in 2010 and in the first round of this year's election, President Dilma Rousseff continued her speech against former President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, claiming that PT voters are "less informed," and criticized the division that, according to her, existed during the Cardoso administration between Northeasterners and those from the South and Southeast regions of the country. In a speech at Largo do Bonfim, in front of the Church of Our Lord of Bonfim, the PT candidate strongly criticized the "prejudice" against the Northeast region.

"We are a people destined to have less prejudice, to be more flexible. I believe that one of our greatest riches is this regional and cultural diversity. It is very serious when they try to attribute my vote and the first place I obtained in the first round to me, saying: 'they voted for this project because the people who voted are not qualified, they are uninformed.' That's an old argument. I am certain that an essential part of Brazil is here in the Northeast. Without the Northeast, without Bahia, this country would not be the Brazil that we love."

Dilma strongly criticized what she called the "drought industry," which, according to her, occurred during FHC's government. "They never looked after this area. They left it for years and years without investment and infrastructure, always using and abusing the drought industry."

One of the flagship programs of the PT government, Bolsa Família, was also used by the president to compare social measures with those of past administrations. "Their Bolsa Família was for very few, ours is for more than 50 million."