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The problem with self-criticism is that they are almost always late. The reelection institute was incorporated into the Constitution in 1997 for the benefit of then-president Fernando Henrique Cardoso, who would be reelected in the 1998 presidential succession. After 23 years, FHC decided to make a “mea culpa.”
In an article entitled “Reelection and crisis”, published this Sunday in Estadão and Globo, the former toucan president wrote: “I must admit that historically it was a mistake.”
“I allowed, and finally accepted, the reelection institute,” said FHC, before putting into context the position it took at the time: “I knew, and I still think that yes, a four-year term is not enough to ‘do something. ‘Consider what is happening in the United States. However, seen today, to imagine that presidents will not bend over backwards to win reelection is naive. “
At a time when polls show Jair Bolsonaro as the main card in the 2022 deck, FHC said that he prefers to increase the term by one year, with no possibility of renewal: “If four years are insufficient and six seem to be a long time, Instead of asking the electorate to cast a ‘plebiscitary’ vote in the fourth year, it would be preferable that we have a five-year term, period. “
In the passage in which he mentioned Bolsonaro, FHC said that he had “the feeling that the president is not well settled in the chair he won.” Despite this, he hinted that the captain is coming out with the idea of doing “the impossible” to obtain a second term. He predicted bad days for Paulo Guedes. He argued that the Minister of Economy will have to adjust to the chief’s re-election project.
This is what FHC wrote about the fate of Guedes: “… He crashed with the crisis, for which he is not responsible. It does not matter, he will pay the price: everything that was his dream, cutting expenses, for example, it becomes a nightmare. ” And worse: as an economist, he knows that the domestic debt grows rapidly, and without the alternative of inflation, which apparently made it possible to do what the presidents want: to serve all or the majority and win reelection. The only thing left is the empty talk. It is tiring and ineffective in a Congress that, in general, also wants to spend and also thinks about elections ”.
Re-election is a thorny issue for FHC. “They accused me of ‘buying’ votes in favor of the thesis of re-election in Congress,” the former president recalled at one point. The vote buying accusation is attached to the great toucan biography like the fish scales.
FHC referred to the scandal with the conformity of those who have already thrown in the towel: “It is of little use to deny and say that the majority of the population and Congress were in favor of my re-election: they feared Lula’s victory …” In fact , the attempt to deny it is worth little when confronted with the evidence.
The re-election was approved by Congress in a vague atmosphere. The voices of deputies looted on tape rang out in the background. They mentioned a certain “federal quota” provided by “Serjão”. Obtained by reporter Fernando Rodrigues, the tape was published by Folha. Some excerpts are worth remembering.
“As far as I know, it is the following: it was the 200 from Serjão, via Amazonino, which was the federal quota, there from the agreement …”, we heard in an extract from the recording. “He said, to everyone, there, half the world, there. I spoke with Luís Eduardo. Luís Eduardo scheduled an audience with Serjão. Then, Serjão scored with Amazonino.”
Serjão, already dead, was Sérgio Roberto Vieira da Motta. Spacious, it has grown a lot on the sides. Hence the nickname. The augmentative did not imply any exaggeration. Except for the voice, fine like that of former fighter Anderson Silva, everything in Serjão seemed exaggerated. Starting with your appetite.
Aside from his natural appetite for food, Serjão had another kind of hunger. I was hungry for power. It was easy to irritate him. It was enough to call him “treasurer.” He met FHC in 1975, in the newspaper ‘Movimento’. By 1978, he was already coordinating his Senate campaign. They became good friends.
During the FHC government, Serjão was Minister of Communications. Where there was an empty slot, there he was to fill it. Was there a lack of opposition to the government? Serjão addressed the Solidarity Community, a program of the first lady Ruth Cardoso, of “sociological masturbation”. Did the plateau lack political coordination? Serjão himself assumed the role of re-elected merchant.
Serious gestures, Serjão let himself be guided by emotion. Power was his toy. The center of attention, your vitamin. The subway, your favorite environment. Serjão was, before minister, a combination of businessman and political activist, not necessarily in that order.
FHC was so obsessed with the re-election thesis that it allowed the effort to resemble the Serjão, a meat and bone tractor, a character unaccustomed to license applications. Today’s denial contrasts with everything that was noted in the encyclopedia entry: the tapes, the “federal quota,” the mentions of the president’s friend.
At that time, a weak opposition tried to install a reelection CPI. FHC said: “We cannot turn Congress into a police force.” When the past comes back to haunt you, something that only happens from weird to weird, FHC usually says there was an investigation. Where? In the Constitution and Justice Commission of the Chamber. In Lava Jato times, it seems like a joke.
Two Acre MPs whose voices sounded on the “federal quota” tape were seized. Three others have resigned from their respective mandates. In the article in which it treats reelection as “a mistake”, FHC should have pointed to the fragment of the Mass that Catholics recite to acknowledge, in a secular ritual, their mistakes before God.
Creed: “I confess to the Virgin Mary the almighty Virgin, Saint Michael the Archangel, John the Baptist, the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, all the saints, and to you, in thought, word and deed, because of me, because of me, because of my has failed. “
In Portuguese: “I, a sinner, confess to Almighty God, always blessed to the Virgin Mary, to Blessed Michael the Archangel, to Blessed Saint John the Baptist, to the Holy Apostles Saint Peter and Saint Paul, to all Saints and to you, Father, because I have sinned many times, through thoughts, words and deeds, because of me, my fault, my greatest fault “.
