Altman asks: what will the PT's response be?
"The escalation against President Dilma Rousseff has transformed, starting this Sunday, into a reactionary mass movement," warns journalist Breno Altman, who demands that "the head of state and the Workers' Party need to decide which course they will take in the face of this new political fact"; "Numerous sectors of the middle classes have placed the overthrow of a legitimately elected government on the agenda," he says; the columnist also emphasizes, in 247, that "the dimension of the anti-democratic movement" shows that "without an urgent renegotiation with the popular field, the Workers' Party will lose the conditions to victoriously contest the public squares, the hearts and minds of the millions of workers who form its social base."
247 - President Dilma Rousseff and the PT "need to decide which course they will take" in light of the new political situation that has emerged from the escalation against the government, which, since Sunday the 15th, has transformed "into a reactionary mass movement," demands journalist Breno Altman, from Opera Mundi, on his partner blog of 247.
"The last time we witnessed a phenomenon of this nature was on the eve of the 1964 military coup, with the marches that cleared the way for the tanks. Although the political situation is different and we are not on the verge of a constitutional rupture, much less the military intervention advocated by anti-PT factions, the nature of the dispute between the two camps into which the country is currently divided has changed. Numerous sectors of the middle classes have placed the overthrow of a legitimately elected government on the agenda. They count on the support of the main media outlets and right-wing parties, including elements of the allied base," he writes.
According to Altman, ministers José Eduardo Cardozo and Miguel Rossetto, with their speeches about the protests, offered "an outstretched and trembling hand for dialogue." "The reasoning implicit in this approach is that there is always the possibility of avoiding confrontation with social classes and political groups hostile to any changes that minimally affect their interests or potentially threaten their hegemony," he opines.
According to the journalist, "the president has created an atmosphere of confusion, division, and discouragement in recent months with fiscal adjustment measures and the appointment of ministers without any commitment to the program that won in 2014. Perhaps she believed that her main problem was the same as always: how to obtain a parliamentary majority and appease capital, so that her administration could avoid isolation and face the difficulties of the economy."
The scale of the anti-democratic movement, however, adds Breno Altman, "shows that the crucial issue is something else: without an urgent renegotiation with the popular movement, the Workers' Party will lose the ability to victoriously contest the public arenas, the hearts and minds of the millions of workers who form its social base."
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