Democracy will become poorer if Congress does not renew itself

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The truth is that they were careful about the timing of destroying the licensing rules. This was not during the COP, so that foreigners would not see our delay. It is natural for them to think that news does not travel quickly, and that we have international competitors for our agricultural business. Soon, we can sign an agreement between Mercosur and the European Union. Your contribution could be crucial to failure.

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We are living in strange weeks. For the sake of subtlety, I could see some wonderful realism of the tropics in it. But it would give a romantic aura to something that seems to me pure deterioration in our political life.

A company managed to evade taxes worth R$26 billion. Only now do we realize that the project of punishing these persistent debtors lies in Hugo Motta’s drawer. He sleeps with urgency, which is in contrast to deep sleep.

Likewise, we discovered that Banco Master made a loss of R$12 billion. Everyone knew, everyone suspected, but nothing was done. The bank owner had to spend a few days in prison, which of course is nothing compared to the long sentences served by someone who steals soap from the supermarket.

Perhaps the strangeness approaches fantastic realism in the case of General Augusto Heleno. He reported after his conviction, upon his arrest, that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2018. There must be a mistake, memory loss.

From then until today, seven years have passed. I met Heleno in Haiti. I later visited the Yanomami alongside him when he was a leader in the Amazon. I do not underestimate your ability in foreign languages, nor your knowledge of our country. But frankly, if this is true, in 2018, the year Bolsonaro was elected, Heleno would not have been able to oversee the country’s intelligence, let alone the president’s security. We were going to encounter this secret anomaly: the head of national intelligence has serious cognitive problems.

Despite much talk about the democratic progress that was a condemnation of the coup plot, our system continues to weaken. The case of the appointment of a new STF Minister is typical. Lola chose to choose someone he trusted the most. But he is not criticized by personal standards. On the contrary, Davy Alcombre wants to nominate someone he trusts. He wants to compete with Lula for the powers of the president. In the face of this, several rebellions arose in Congress, approving bomb agendas designed to blow up the budget.

The restoration of democracy took a jolt in 2018. But warnings had already been issued in the demonstrations of 2013. If we do not make an extraordinary effort to renew Congress, Brazil’s democracy will continue to impoverish. It may not fall, but no one will want to move the straw to keep it upright.