segundo turno

Peguei do Kenji que pegou do slashdot. Escreveram por nós dois ;-)

People do mind about honesty, but they're rather vote for someone who "steals, but does" like Maluf than a seemingly good-intended less-known politician. And people can't remember stuff for much longer than a goldfish. I live in Brasília and I'm completely ashamed to know that people here elected someone like Arruda as a Governor. He violated the secrecy of the electronic voting panel, a few years ago, and lied about not being responsible for it. When undeniable evidence was found later, he admitted having done it. He was likely to be prosecuted (and bound to be punished), but resigned and charges against hill were dropped. Ex-president Fernando Collor de Mello was elected senator for Alagoas. Paulo Maluf was elected congressman for São Paulo.

The Carta Capital weekly magazine made some researches about scandals in the last three governments: Lula's, Collor's and Fernando Henrique Cardoso's. Unlike most people seem to believe now, the scandals in the other two governments involved much bigger sums of money. The difference is that Fernando Henrique's was much quicker to react and cover the scandals up, and we all know how Collor ended up. Let us not forget that Marcos Valério worked for FHC people too, that the ambulances scandal began while José Serra (elected Governor of São Paulo) was Minister of Health for FHC, and that Roberto Jefferson, who started the first big scandal of Lula's government, was the biggest defender of Collor's misdoings.

This is a very dark time for Brazil. I'm not happy with Lula's government, but I voted for him since I can't trust Alckmin (he has a very Maluf-like way of doing politics), neither Heloísa Helena (she seemed to be angry all the time, could never give a good answer when asked HOW she intended to do the things she promised, and surprisingly has some conservative support), neither Cristovam (I know him, he was principal of University of Brasília and Governor here for four years) would make a better government. It's so difficult to advance that we have to make it by small steps. I believe Lula's government is one of those small steps. Probably you think otherwise, but I respect your opinion. Let us hope that the next government be better than the last ones.

Cheers!


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