Wanderley Guilherme to 247: "Marina is unfeasible"
A political scientist says that each proposal from the PSB candidate is designed for a different country: "How is it possible to disregard the pre-salt oil reserves, maintain jobs throughout the production chain activated by Petrobras, and invest heavily in education and health?", he questions; the professor says he doesn't believe the measures "are serious"; speaking to Paulo Moreira Leite's blog, he says that the "emotional factor" of these elections, resulting from the accident involving Eduardo Campos and the selective opportunism of the media, makes the contest irrational; were it not for these events, Aécio Neves would establish himself as the "consistent representative" of the opposition to President Dilma Rousseff's government.
247 - The proposals of PSB candidate Marina Silva are each designed for a different country, opines political scientist Wanderley Guilherme dos Santos, in an interview with... Paulo Moreira Leite's blog on 247According to him, "it's not just that the offers comprise an obscurantist, creationist program, but that the proposal, all things considered, is self-destructive and unfeasible." "That's why I don't believe that the proposals of Rede, in its PSB version, are serious," the professor states.
In his assessment, the "emotional factor" of these elections, resulting from the tragedy that killed the PSB candidate, Eduardo Campos, and the selective opportunism of the media, made the contest irrational. If it weren't for these events, he says, Aécio Neves, the PSDB candidate who lost second place to Marina in the polls, would have established himself as the "consistent representative" of the opposition to President Dilma Rousseff's government. "And he wouldn't be a wild card," he believes.
The political scientist says that Marina Silva's campaign "promotes the idea that the country's problems stem from the competition between the PT and the PSDB, and that overcoming this through the victory of a third party would, by itself, have the potential to beneficially guide all the solutions that traditional competition prevents." According to him, this is a "diagnostic error (if the candidate and her advisors truly believe it)."
When asked if he remembers another election in which the media behaved "so biased," he replies: "Brazilian political journalism exhaustively takes advantage of the prevailing institutional conditions. Some are extremely relevant to democracy – freedom of opinion and of expressing political preference, for example – others leave citizens defenseless against crimes cataloged in the codes but with ineffective judgment and reparation. This is a fact to be taken into account in electoral calculations, not to form hypotheses about what would happen if the world were different. There was no willingness to change the rules before. Now we have to rely on them."
Read the full interview at Wanderley Guilherme: "Marina's proposal is self-destructive, unfeasible"