A member of the Workers' Party says that "Aécio will only ever have the desire to be president of Brazil."

Bahia 247 - Federal deputy Valmir Assunção (PT-BA) did not let pass the slip of the tongue by Senator Aécio Neves (PSDB-MG) that reverberated throughout the country. In a speech in the Chamber, this Tuesday (7), the PT member said that Aécio has such a desire to be president of the Republic, that he said he had been re-elected president, when in fact he was reappointed to the presidency of the PSDB, at the end of the weekend, during the party convention, in Brasília.

"For me, these weren't Aécio's mistakes. First, he said that 'the PSDB is the biggest opposition party in Brazil.' I believe he wasn't wrong; Aécio was speaking with complete conviction. Second, when he said he was 're-elected president of Brazil.' That shows such a strong desire to be president of the Republic, but there's no way around it; he'll have to wait a little longer. I believe the PSDB will choose José Serra as their candidate, and Aécio will be left in line, waiting to perhaps one day become president. With the kind of speeches he makes, he never will, because the people are intelligent," said Valmir Assunção.

The Workers' Party member also criticized the political reform bill that entered its second round of voting in the Chamber of Deputies. He believes this new phase of the review should be a moment for "all deputies to exercise good sense and have a new chance to reconsider their vote in favor of approval."

"We need to start this discussion about the second round and reject corporate financing in election campaigns. Parliamentary mandates should belong to the people, not to corporations. It's necessary to build a different way of doing politics in Brazil to strengthen parties, with ever greater transparency for society, so that people are elected to public office not because of the amount of money they have, but because of their representativeness in the eyes of the Brazilian population," says the congressman.

Valmir Assunção also says that "what currently exists is precisely economic power determining, in the vast majority of parliamentarians, who gets elected."