Lula’s campaign unites 'divergent to win over the antagonistic'
"One just can’t make mistakes in politics. If you make a mistake in politics, you don’t recover." In a crowded room of a hotel in São Paulo, former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Workers’ Party, PT) delivers a message to former ministers of the Fernando Henrique Cardoso (Brazilian Social Democracy Party, PSDB) administration, members and former members of PSDB, economists critical of the Workers’ Party, gathered to announce support for his presidential candidacy. After thanking them for their declared vote five days before the first round of vote, Mr. Lula da Silva told the audience that it’s okay to differ. "Here it means a meeting of the divergent to win over the antagonistic." At the end of the meeting, everyone united to make the "L" sign for Lula with the hands.With a chance to win the presidential race already this Sunday, according to polls by Datafolha and Ipec, Mr. Lula da Silva ends the first-round campaign with the consolidation of the propagated "broad front" against President Jair Bolsonaro (Liberal Party, PL).The movement to broaden the candidacy, publicly defended by Mr. Lula da Siva a year and a half ago, began to take shape after he picked former São Paulo Governor Geraldo Alckmin (Brazilian Socialist Party, PSB) for his ticket. It took off when during the campaign his candidacy proved to be the only one capable of defeating President Jair Bolsonaro. Part of the most recent supporters said they supported Mr. Lula da Silva due to anti-Bolsonarism rather than identifying with the leftist candidate.Mr. Lula da Silva was joined by heavyweights from the industrial sector, bankers, former ministers of the Supreme Court (STF) with little sympathy for the party, and economists critical of the Workers’ Party. Former historic allies who had broken away and celebrities who had never sided with the former president joined him.The former president has managed to garner support with few concessions from a programmatic standpoint. In remarks, he has highlighted the social legacy of his administrations, criticized the economic crisis with rising prices and showed Mr. Bolsonaro as "inhuman and incompetent" in the management of the pandemic. The Workers’ Party candidate, however, has left unanswered questions on the economy.Mr. Lula da Silva has not yet shown what he intends to put as a fiscal anchor in place of the spending cap, the rule that limits the growth of public spending to the previous year’s inflation, which he has already...
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