Ricardo Melo criticizes the PT's "lack of appetite".
Columnist Ricardo Melo cites the battle for the bike lane by Fernando Haddad's government in São Paulo: "turning this into a government banner in a capital with such great needs reveals, as the people would say, a lack of common sense"; at the federal level, he says that, in addition to the Petrobras case, the party submits to a secondary, supporting role, also in the face of scandals such as the HSBC list and the recent Operation Zelotes.
247 – According to columnist Ricardo Melo, the PT's great dilemma is one of content, not form. "Conceived as a representative of workers, the PT has gradually abandoned its essence. From a banker, it risks becoming a banker, to the point of now occupying headlines as a champion of the primary surplus, cuts to social benefits, and shrinking resources for education."
He sees the "PT's lack of appetite." In the case of the capital of São Paulo, he says that while São Paulo suffers from water shortages, experiences a dengue epidemic, and witnesses a new teachers' strike, Mayor Fernando Haddad is waging a battle for bike lanes: "Turning this into a government banner in a capital with such great needs reveals, as the people would say, a lack of common sense."
At the federal level, he says that, in addition to the Petrobras case, the party is relegated to a secondary, supporting role, also in the face of scandals such as the HSBC list and the recent Operation Zelotes (read closest).