Brazil is
celebrating! Brazilian people re-elect
President Lula and defeats the right wing
“coupe d’Etat “ attempt
A renovated
Party, a sovereign and democratic
Brazil, a socialist future
During a long and radicalized
government dispute, Luiz Inácio Lula
da Silva was re-elected President of
Brazil. It was one of the most
disputed presidential sucessions in
the whole history of Republic, in
which the right wing and its media
system have invested furiosly to
regain the government they have lost
in 2002. But, this conservative
political determination was stopped
by the brazilian people, that since
the very beginning of this sucession
have made their choice and struggled
for it. The Brazilian people have
showed its force, its conscience and
the people was the biggest winner in
this historical October 29th, 2006.
It was a huge victory: Lula obtained
20 million of votes more than his
adversary and a total sum of 58
million votes that indicates that
the majority of the nation has
approved Lulas’s first
administration and that they are
confident in Lula’s commitment that
his 2nd mandate will be even more
audacious , fulfilling, and above
all, the development project with
income distribution.
While reelecting Lula with a large
advantage over his adversary, the
brazilian people has clamourosly
said “stop” to the right wing coupe
attempt. It is also a cry to stop
the hegemonic media, that used and
abused of lies and manipulation. It
is a lesson to the arrogant editors
and columnists of the national press
that have judged themselves as the
tutors of peoples’s consciousness.
But his victory has another side
that qualifies it even more. The
exasperated ideas confrontation of
the 2nd turn took to the choice of
ballots boxes two different
conceptions of Brazil, two antagonic
political programs. In fact, the
neo-liberal dogma was put in a
trial. And it was reject by the
people. The confrontation about the
theme of privatizations has showed
how much the neo-liberal though is
discredited among brazilians. The
coalition PSDB-PFL[1] reared by this
rejection - - constated by recent
public poll that has registrated 70%
of repudiation to the privatizations
– they have not political courage to
assume their program and has adopted
an ashamed neo-liberal posture
The foreign policy it was also a
detached point in this programmatic
confrontation. The Alckmin’s[2]
candidacy made clear the conception
of a dependent and subaltern Brazil,
a subservient country to the United
States of America’s Government.
Lula’s campaign has reaffirmed his
commitment with strengthening of the
sovereign of the country and his
compromise with a solidary process
to contribute to the economic and
social development of the Latin
American countries. On this way,
Lula’s reelection is an important
fact beyond our frontiers. For this
reason, his victory is celebrated by
peoples of the Latin America region
and by their progressive
governments.
In this 2nd turn of the brazilian
elections there was a radicalized, a
polarized political and programmatic
confrontation. The result of this is
that Lula is reelected with the
clear and explicit commitment to
accelerate the reforms in the
country. Lula is legitimated to rule
a political and social majority, a
strong coalition, with the main aim
to conduct courageously the country
toward the accomplishment of a
nacional development project with
income distribution
(1) PSDB , the Brazilian Social
Democratic Party and PFL, th Liberal
Front Party
(2) Geraldo Alckmin, the candidate
of Psdb/PFL coalition
