Brazilian sociologist Carolina Botelho believes that the transition team formed by the future Brazilian government headed by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as of January 2023 has been working to incorporate campaign promises.
“In this transitional government we see elements of an electoral campaign. The campaign promises have been incorporated by the teams that formulate the transition agenda”, the political analyst from the Institute of Advanced Studies of the University of São Paulo and the Electoral Studies Laboratory, said Lusa. , Political Communication and Public Opinion from the State University of Rio de Janeiro.
“The transition government has prioritized action to broaden the range of support [que recebeu na campanha] in sectors of society to show that the victory over the other candidate was a victory for a broad front, for a front that wants to be accountable to Brazil,” he added.
According to the sociologist, thirty days after Lula da Silva’s victory over the current president, Jair Bolsonaro, in the second round of the presidential elections on October 30, the transition team made up of 280 members has carried out data surveys from different areas of the Government, uniting people from various sectors of society, many of whom were opponents of the Workers’ Party (PT) and Lula da Silva to “reconstruct a public agenda” in the country.
To guide her assessment, Carolina Botelho recalled that the vice president-elect, Geraldo Alckmin, symbolizes this union after being appointed head of the transition group.
“Secondly, we see several people and various sectors with ideas, often conflicting on public policies, now working together to enforce what was announced in the electoral campaign,” said Carolina Botelho.
“Specifically, [a transição para o Governo Lula] It has fulfilled its promises and has brought a series of elements that were placed and that society requested and supported because it wanted a reconstruction of the democratic republican fabric that was attacked in the last four years,” he completed.
Although the transition work groups act to make diagnoses on different areas of the Brazilian Government at a time when there are no concrete indications of the people who will actually command the Ministries, the sociologist reinforced that the work in progress is positive.
“The fundamental flag of the campaign that is being incorporated is to focus on public policies for people who are experiencing situations of poverty, misery, food shortages and whose children were out of school,” he said.
According to Carolina Botelho, these are people who suffered a lot from the pandemic “especially women who had to take care of their children, the elderly, the family that lost their job and their income.” [da equipa de transição] It has been and mainly in them, which is convergent with the campaign. So I think that’s very positive.”
For the social scientist, the future government’s delay in announcing names, especially in the economic area where there are already many uncertainties and great pressure from market agents with wide repercussions in the media, is due to the need for a strong choice of a person to head the future Ministry of Finance, now called the Ministry of Economy, which must be reformulated and divided into more than one portfolio as of January 2023.
“What I know is that part of this financial market, let’s say, prioritized the election of Lula [da Silva] precisely because it represented the return of democratic normality, but another group continued with Bolsonaro, despite all the violence committed [pelo atual Presidente] to the Constitution and democratic republican values”, he evaluated.
Carolina Botelho argued that it is necessary to demystify the so-called “market”, which is often treated as an inanimate entity, but is made up of people and agents that are connected and form groups with well-defined ideological preferences and political interests.
“I take into account that there is a transition government that is working, that it is functional and has many sectors [trabalhando juntos] in there. IT IS. a broad base. The one who is directing and leading this transition is a person who for two decades was a political opponent of the next President and is bringing broad sectors of society closer and trying to look at all angles of Brazilian problems ”, he concluded.
Source: TSF
