Kotscho: Yesterday was a day for Dilma to celebrate.
"For me, the most important thing, contrary to what the mainstream press says, was not the defeat that Dilma imposed on the president of the Senate, Renan Calheiros, with the approval of Luiz Fachin's name for the Supreme Court, which he didn't want, but the major trade agreement sealed with China, a package of US$ 53 billion in 35 infrastructure projects, treated by the major newspapers as a mere routine administrative act," comments the journalist.
247 - Yesterday was a day for President Dilma Rousseff to celebrate, says journalist Ricardo Kotscho, in your blogFor him, the focus was more on economics than politics, the area in which Luiz Edson Fachin's name was approved for the Supreme Court. According to Kotscho, the economic partnership with China, which yielded US$53 billion in business, was "the most important thing of all," although "treated by the major newspapers as a mere routine administrative act." Read below:
A day of victories for Dilma and defeats for Renan and Cunha.
Nothing like one day after another, with a night in between. Each day has its own agony. And so we go on living, going on with life. President Dilma Rousseff may have thought of these old teachings at the end of this Tuesday of victories for the government and defeats for her biggest adversaries at the moment, the subject of my commentary on Jornal da Record News.
In the tug-of-war between the government and Congress, following a season of bad news, yesterday was a day for Dilma to celebrate, both politically and economically.
For me, the most important thing of all, contrary to what the so-called mainstream press says, was not the defeat that Dilma imposed on the president of the Senate, Renan Calheiros, with the approval of Luiz Fachin's name for the Supreme Court, which he did not want, but the major trade agreement sealed with China, a package of US$ 53 billion in 35 infrastructure projects, treated by the major newspapers as a mere routine administrative act.
At a time when our economy is faltering and crying out for new investments, nothing could be better for the Brazilian government than this partnership with China, on the eve of Dilma's official visit to the United States, and not only because of the amounts involved.
There is a historic repositioning taking place in world geopolitics between the two largest powers on the planet, in which trade is becoming more decisive in the struggle for leadership than endless territorial and ideological wars. The Chinese are investing heavily in Latin America and Africa, and certainly not out of charity.
The effects of the Brazil-China agreement will be profound and lasting, while the battle over the appointment of the new minister to the Supreme Court was merely an isolated event, which soon no one will talk about anymore, and which only serves to demonstrate the pettiness of the political debate in the press and in parliament, with the sole objective of undermining the federal government.
On the same day as Renan Calheiros' defeat in the Senate, the Speaker of the House, Eduardo Cunha, was forced to postpone the vote on political reform due to a lack of agreement in the special committee he himself created, showing that the two are not as powerful as they imagined and were portrayed in the news.
The balance of power has shifted in favor of the Executive branch, and the next moves are completely unpredictable, with the main parties in tatters, relegated to the background by cross-party blocs formed around specific, let's say, un-republican interests.