PML: Why the PSDB left power and never returned.

Paulo Moreira Leite, director of 247 in Brasília, emphasizes the importance of remembering, in a new column on his blog, "how Brazil was at the end of Fernando Henrique Cardoso's two terms" and of "understanding why the last PSDB president left Brasília with a 13% negative popularity rating," especially in the current context, as PML points out, where Aécio Neves' candidacy "is beginning to show signs of life" and Marina Silva's "remains standing thanks to the constant transfusion of support from PSDB leaders"; for this, he highlights the book 'Brasil Privatizado' (Privatized Brazil), by journalist Aloysio Biondi, which "helps to understand why PSDB left the Planalto Palace in 2002 and never managed to return."

September 25, 2014, 21:18 PMUpdated July 05, 2018, 15:57 pm

Paulo Moreira Leite, director of 247 in Brasília, emphasizes the importance of remembering, in a new column on his blog, "how Brazil was at the end of Fernando Henrique Cardoso's two terms" and of "understanding why the last PSDB president left Brasília with a 13% negative popularity rating," especially in the current context, as PML points out, where Aécio Neves' candidacy "is beginning to show signs of life" and Marina Silva's "remains standing thanks to the constant transfusion of support from PSDB leaders"; for this, he highlights the book 'Brasil Privatizado' (Privatized Brazil), by journalist Aloysio Biondi, which "helps to understand why PSDB left the Planalto Palace in 2002 and never managed to return" (Photo: Gisele Federicce).

247 - The current situation, with Aécio Neves (PSDB) rising in the polls and Marina Silva's candidacy sustained by the constant transfusion of support from PSDB leaders, reveals the importance of remembering "how Brazil was at the end of Fernando Henrique Cardoso's two terms and understanding why the last PSDB president left Brasília with 13% negative popularity," writes Paulo Moreira Leite, in a new column on his blog at 247.

To illustrate this, he highlights the book "Privatized Brazil," by economic journalist Aloysio Biondi (1936-2000), which, according to PML, "helps to understand why the PSDB left the Planalto Palace in 2002 and never managed to return." "The book shows figures and political measures that allowed the transfer of a huge portion of the wealth built by several generations of Brazilians to private pockets, largely foreign ones," the columnist points out.

According to Paulo Moreira Leite, Biondi shows the following: in the end, a negative balance – R$ 87,6 billion – was reached with the privatizations during the FHC government. In practice, he argues, the country lost R$ 2,4 billion. "Speaking of a government that was still in the early stages of its second term, Biondi accused FHC of destroying the national soul, the collective dream." He was one of the first to note that, from a social point of view, Brazilian privatization proved to be more inequitable than the process conducted by Margaret Thatcher in England," observes PML.

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