A columnist for Globo who offered forgiveness to the PT is trying to separate Lula and Haddad.
A week after saying that "it is necessary to forgive the PT," Ascânio Sêleme emphasizes that he is referring to Fernando Haddad's Workers' Party – and not that of former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
247 - The strategy of the Globo group, which, last week, offered forgiveness to the Workers' PartyThis becomes clearer this week through the column of journalist Ascânio Sêleme, former editor-in-chief of the newspaper and one of its main columnists. In a new article, Sêleme emphasizes that the clemency offered by Globo is directed at a supposed Workers' Party of Fernando Haddad, and not at the PT that includes former presidents Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff. The article also denies reality by failing to acknowledge that there was a coup d'état in Brazil in 2016 and that Lula was a political prisoner – two phenomena supported by Globo that allowed the rise of Bolsonaro.
"If the Workers' Party organizes itself internally through some political tendencies that fight for power within the party, from the outside one can only see two distinct PTs. One of them is Lula's, the one in charge, and has among its exponents Gleisi Hoffmann and José Dirceu. These don't even want to hear about political understanding, about a front against Bolsonaro. They are betting on rupture as the only way to regain power. They understand that an alignment with the other forces of the democratic field could result in the election of a non-PT member. Furthermore, they claim that if the rejection of the PT leads to Bolsonaro's re-election, that will be a problem for Brazil, not for the party," says Ascânio Sêleme in his article.
"But there is another PT, as left-wing as Lula's, or even more so. This group, led by former minister, former mayor of São Paulo, and former presidential candidate Fernando Haddad, has already publicly acknowledged the PT's mistakes and shown itself ready to rebuild and revive the party. This group does not have the populist shackles of Lula and company; it is more modern, thinks about the future, and is not content with merely serving immediate and corporatist interests," states the columnist. "The future of Brazil's largest left-wing party will be determined by the prevalence of one group over the other. Today, Haddad's PT is a minority, suffers open censorship from the majority faction, and often needs to remain silent to survive and continue fighting internally for the transformation of the party," says Sêleme, attempting to create a non-existent division between Lula and Haddad.