Bricklayer: Temer, the "mule," is bleeding and having difficulty "delivering the package"
Journalist Fernando Brito, from Tijolaço, says that the role the ruling elite chose Michel Temer for was that of a "mule"; "To seize power through a coup and then hand it over to the PSDB, already properly cleansed of the rights of the poor and with measures to strip the Brazilian state bare," he states; "The mule, however, is scandalously lame. (...) Wounded and alone, it quickens its pace towards the delivery of its main order: the pension reform, in which, as an add-on, comes the labor reform."
By Fernando Brito, from brick - As is well known, the role for which the ruling elite has chosen Michel Temer was that of a "mule".
To seize power through a coup and then hand it over to the PSDB, already properly cleansed of the rights of the poor and with measures to dismantle the Brazilian state.
The mule, however, is scandalously lame.
The troop she led loses one member per week, and each one who leaves becomes an additional burden: one more to get rid of legal troubles.
And, in terms of getting rid of someone, nothing is more important than relieving the "Cunha pressure," managing to get the former congressman released, a mission entrusted to Gilmar "Prolonged Prisons" Mendes. The decision, if possible to keep within the Second Chamber of the Supreme Court, should avoid an embarrassing debut for Alexandre de Moraes, which would further mark Temer's fingerprints on his head.
If it had been standard practice from the beginning to allow the accused to respond to the charges while free, as mandated by law, as soon as documents were seized, assets and accounts were frozen, it would be just another example.
But Moro, the Justice system, and especially the Superior Court of Justice (STJ) and the Supreme Federal Court (STF), accustomed the country, for over two years, to the idea that the place for the accused is in jail. And who is more accused, who is more of a criminal in the eyes of public opinion than Eduardo Cunha?
Perhaps, without political repercussions, the former goalkeeper Bruno.
So, wounded and alone, the "mule" quickens its pace towards delivering its main order: the pension reform, which includes, as an added bonus, the labor reform.
But problems arise for this, both in the "lower ranks" of the PMDB party, which sees the PSDB in the best positions, and in the parliamentary leadership, shaken by the accusations against Rodrigo Maia (to the Odebrecht accusations are now added those of Delta Engenharia, owned by Fernando Cavendish, anticipated by Veja) and the uproar that the arrest of Jorge and Bruno Luz will cause within the PMDB party in the Senate.
In an article published by O Globo, a PSDB leader downplays the PMDB's dissatisfaction: "The natural consequence is that Temer, to escape isolation, increasingly demands the presence of PSDB figures who can support him and with whom he can work with a greater degree of trust. Unfortunately, he has lost these trusted interlocutors in the PMDB; there's no one left, and the party's representation is a desert. He has been calling Aécio to the Planalto Palace more and more frequently, and Imbassahy will grow significantly. He is discreet and reliable. Will it generate jealousy? Yes. But unfortunately, they have no way to react to it."
Is that so? A large part of the city center is floating, carried by the tide. And the tide is bad, very bad.
Temer's triumphant carnival, planned to parade while shouting "look at the growth, folks," saw its atmosphere shift to Ash Wednesday on Thursday.