Eliane calls the restriction on new parties a war against the opposition.
"A point for the government, which managed to get it approved in the Chamber of Deputies, but it's also an indicator that Dilma's candidacy isn't secure about victory and fears the multiplication of adversaries in the first round," says the Folha columnist.
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BRASILIA - The bill that restricts the financing and participation of new parties on TV is a clear move in the election campaign, a war waged by the government against the opposition.
A point for the government, which managed to get it approved in the Chamber of Deputies, but it is also an indicator that Dilma's candidacy is not confident about victory and fears the multiplication of adversaries in the first round.
With the necessary reservations that party fragmentation is harmful and that the project's victory was overwhelming --240 to 30--, the change fails in a vital aspect: that of timing, which veers into opportunism and collapses into casuistry.
Those who benefit from the project are the PT and PMDB—and therefore Dilma—and Kassab's PSD, which exists thanks to the current law and is shamelessly working for the new one, trying to hinder an exodus of members to new parties.
And who loses? The opposition. Mainly Marina Silva, who is working hard to create her party, Rede Sustentabilidade (Sustainability Network), and Eduardo Campos, who has the PSB (Brazilian Socialist Party), but dreams of strengthening the future MD (Democratic Mobilization), a merger of Roberto Freire's PPS (Popular Socialist Party) with the PMN (National Mobilization Party).
The text, therefore, is clearly seen as a preemptive Dilma attack against the candidacies of Marina, who received around 20 million votes in 2010, and Eduardo Campos, who presents himself as "the new face" of 2014, trying to nibble at the edges of both the government and the opposition.
Also losing is the candidate from the main opposition party, Aécio Neves, of the PSDB. Why? Because the greater the number of parties and candidates registered, the greater the chance of a second round. All Dilma wants is to win in the first round.
All Aécio is focusing on right now is reaching second place.
Minister Gilberto Carvalho criticized "the rush to create a party," but the government also doesn't need to put in so much effort to prevent Marina from having a party and to prevent Campos from expanding his support.
Or is it necessary?