Bringing the PS, PCP, Bloco and Verdes together in a government is nothing compared to the task of Lula da Silva, Brazil’s president-elect, who will sit in the executive and parliamentary support base, the PSB, the Solidarity, PSol, Rede, PV, Pros, Agir, PCdoB and PDT, members of the campaign coalition, PSD, MDB and perhaps União Brasil, post-election allies and even some supporters of impeachment of Dilma Rousseff and members of the outgoing party far-right president Jair Bolsonaro.
A “construction” on a much larger scale than that formed by the XXI Portuguese Constitutional Government, from 2015 to 2019, is not new in Brazil, a country where 23 parties sit in Congress and where, since the redemocratization in 1985, the most represented of them never exceeded 25% of the total number of MPs. Lula founded one when he first ruled the country from 2002 to 2010. And Bolsonaro, while elected in 2018 with a critical discourse on non-programmatic alliances, was also forced to sew his “thingy”.
Source: DN
