Mangabeira speaks and says that DEM is not right-wing.

247 - One of the main aides to former minister and presidential candidate Ciro Gomes, philosopher Mangabeira Unger, said that the DEM party should be seen as a priority partner in the presidential election. He added that the DEM is not a right-wing party, but a party of "regional entrepreneurs."

"Ciro Gomes' candidacy should have two sides. On one hand, it's a center-left candidacy that prioritizes alliances with parties in that field, starting with the PSB and PCdoB. On the other hand, Ciro's candidacy shouldn't be seen solely as center-left. It should also present itself as the most important social agent in Brazil today: the emerging middle class. Who are they? First, they are a small, entrepreneurial, mixed-race, and brown-skinned bourgeoisie that struggles to open and maintain small businesses. Second, they are a mass of workers who are still poor but maintain two or three jobs. Third, they are the multitude, mostly poor, who already have their eyes fixed on the vanguard of the emerging middle class. There are certain parties that are in dialogue with this social reality."

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For example, the DEM (Democrats). I don't see the Democrats as right-wing or center-right. They are the party of regional entrepreneurs. They have roots in the country's decentralized productive structure. On the contrary, the PSDB (Brazilian Social Democracy Party), which is often seen as a party to the left of the Democrats, seems to me to be to the right of the DEM. It is committed to the traditional recipe of the so-called Washington Consensus, with a merely compensatory social policy and a mental and cosmopolitan colonialism. That's what the right wing is. I don't consider an alliance with the Democrats to be merely tactical opportunism. I see consistency in maintaining a candidacy that has these two sides, which are not in contradiction. We cannot allow ourselves to abuse ideological sectarianism.

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