Frei Betto: PT tends to become a caricature of PMDB.
Former special advisor to Lula, Frei Betto, says that the only way out for the party is to return to its origins and seek governability with social movements: “Otherwise, I have the impression that we are beginning to witness the beginning of the end. It may even endure, but the PT tends to become a caricature of the PMDB.”
247 – One of the PT's icons, Frei Betto, harshly criticizes the party. A former advisor to ex-president Lula, he says that the only way out for the party is to return to its origins and seek governability with social movements: “Otherwise, I have the impression that we are beginning to witness the beginning of the end. It may even endure, but the PT tends to become a caricature of the PMDB.”
Despite assessing that the PT's 12 years in power were the best in Brazil in terms of social issues, in an interview with columnist Sonia Racy, he states, "We didn't have any structural reforms, none of those promised in the PT's original documents. Not agrarian, not tax, not political. And we could add not even education or urban reform. In short, what the government lacks – and has lacked since 2003 – is strategic planning" (read here).