Kotscho: "The opposition and the media are holding the mast in their hands."

247 - According to journalist Ricardo Kotscho, after the victory of the Dilma government with the approval, in the CCJ (Committee on Constitution, Justice and Citizenship), of jurist Luiz Edson Fachin, the opposition and the media are left holding the "mast." "In what really matters, Dilma has won all the battles so far: the approval of the budget and the first stage of fiscal adjustment in the Chamber of Deputies, and now the victory in the Senate's CCJ," he emphasizes. your blog"Without the impeachment flag, the opposition and the media are literally left holding the flagpole. What will they do and say from now on?" he asks. Read below:

In the political war, PSDB and the media are left holding the pole.

The score leaves no doubt, as the sports commentators used to say: 20 to 7 in favor of Luiz Fachin's approval. This was the result of the political battle that has been raging for months surrounding the nomination of the new Supreme Court Justice nominated by President Dilma Rousseff.

Late Tuesday night, after more than 11 long hours of questioning that resembled a police interrogation orchestrated by the opposition bloc led by Ronaldo Caiado (DEM-GO), the Senate's Constitution and Justice Committee announced the partial victory – the plenary vote is still pending, scheduled for next Tuesday – of the Dilma government.

If Fachin's nomination had been rejected, newspaper headlines would have attributed the defeat to Dilma Rousseff. Since it was approved, it signified yet another defeat for the opposition party and the mainstream media, which have been advocating for the president's impeachment since the end of last year's election.

In this all-out effort to undermine the government, filling Joaquim Barbosa's seat on the Supreme Court was just another chapter in this endless war that, at this point, reveals a clear weakening of the "Out with Dilma" campaign. In what really matters, Dilma has won every battle so far: the approval of the budget and the first stage of fiscal adjustment in the Chamber of Deputies, and now the victory in the Senate's Constitution and Justice Committee.

Without the banner of impeachment, the opposition and the media are literally left holding the flagpole. What will they do and say from now on? Promote more pot-banging protests, marches to Brasília, open more parliamentary commissions of inquiry, or simply rant and rave into the microphones of the National Congress?

The defeats inflicted on the government so far have been by the pair of "allies" Eduardo Cunha and Renan Calheiros, the PMDB members who preside over the Chamber and Senate – and not by the PSDB and their media allies. It's priceless to see the listless faces of these colleagues on television, commenting on the reasons for yet another failure in their anti-Dilma crusade.

Meanwhile, the Chinese government will announce next week a US$53 billion investment package for infrastructure projects in Brazil. And, somewhere lost in the Midwest, on the way to Brasília, the "March for Freedom," led by a mini-Napoleon, received the enthusiastic support of the PSDB leader in the Chamber of Deputies, Carlos Sampaio, the only member of the party who hasn't yet given up on overthrowing the government. Sampaio promised to join the group of twenty marchers in the final stretch of the march.

The bigwigs of the PSDB party, the ones who really matter, were in New York yesterday while Fachin was being questioned, participating in yet another tribute to former president Fernando Henrique Cardoso promoted by the Brazil-United States Chamber of Commerce. Senators José Serra, Aécio Neves, and Tasso Jereissati, as well as governors Marconi Perillo of Goiás and Pedro Taques (PDT-MT), preferred to listen closely to the speech in which FHC criticized the current government's economic policy.