Sunday edition of Estadão: Palocci falls
Newspaper says new allegations worsen the minister's situation, and his main columnists predict his resignation in the coming hours.
247 – The Sunday edition of Estado de S. Paulo says that the new accusation against Antonio Palocci (that he lives in the apartment of a front man, read moreThis makes her continued presence in the government untenable. According to the newspaper, President Dilma Rousseff reacted with dismay when she watched the interview given to Jornal Nacional.
Columnist Dora Kramer, the newspaper's main political writer, says that Palocci is not acting like a public figure. "He behaved like a private businessman who was being illegally pressured to break clauses in his clients' contracts," she said. But that doesn't save him. "What's at stake isn't Palocci's integrity towards his clients, but his loyalty to those who now have him under contract: society through the government." And she concludes that he will have to make a choice: preserve his private clientele or be transparent to the public.
Journalist João Bosco Rabello, also a political columnist for the newspaper, says that his interview represents a ritual of departure. And that it had the strategic function of isolating President Dilma Rousseff from the crisis, since the minister stated that she was unaware of the details of her chief minister's lucrative consulting business.