Exit Lula
The money-for-votes crisis that has engulfed the governing Workers’ Party in Brazil is a tragedy for President Lula but also the symptom of deeper flaws in the Brazilian republic, says Arthur Ituassu in Rio de Janeiro.
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva addressed the Brazilian people on the morning of Friday 12 August in a speech transmitted live on radio and TV networks across this vast country. It was three months since the eruption of the worst political crisis in Brazil since the impeachment of one of his predecessors, Fernando Collor de Mello, in 1992.
The event also marked the end of another week of tough news and crushing revelations for a president elected in October 2002 by a people – especially Brazil’s poor – as an icon of hope, honesty and a better life for themselves and their country. His Partido dos Trabalhadores (Workers’ Party, PT) entered government at the same time after three failed campaigns (1989, 1994 and 1998), carrying the promise of rule by clean hands that deserved the trust of the electorate.
Source: Open Democracy.
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