Pestana: "Dilma is incapable of building consensus"

Minas 247 - A supporter of likely presidential candidate Aécio Neves, the president of the PSDB party in Minas Gerais, Congressman Marcus Pestana, lamented on Wednesday President Dilma Rousseff's "inability" to coordinate talks and build consensus. The congressman was referring to the long-running debate over the presidential vetoes of the law on the distribution of oil royalties.

Read below his statements, published in the column of Claudio Humberto shortly before the session on the topic, this Wednesday:

Royalties: Congressman says Dilma's leadership vacuum is creating a climate of war.

Congressman Marcus Pestana, president of the PSDB party in Minas Gerais, said a short while ago that it will be a long night in the National Congress for the discussion and voting on the presidential vetoes to the new law on the distribution of royalties. But he lamented: "The Federation, fractured, bleeds in the plenary session due to the leadership vacuum left by Dilma and her inability to coordinate talks and build consensus."

Pestana, who is part of the "shock troops" of the PSDB presidential candidate Aécio Neves, compares the dispute over royalties to the American Civil War, with the delegations from Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and Espírito Santo against the rest of the country. He says that politics is going through a delicate moment in the country.

"We've reached such a sectarian climate that it's the very negation of Politics as the art of producing divergence." According to the PSDB-MG congressman, "if the president had the vision of a statesman, she would have nipped the problem in the bud."