PSDB leader wants Rousseff government "to bleed" ahead of 2018 vote
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PSDB leader wants Rousseff government "to bleed" ahead of 2018 vote
12:00 AM (GMT -03:00) – Mar 10 2015
During a debate Monday at the Fernando Henrique Institute, Senator Aloysio Nunes Ferreira (Brazilian Social Democracy Party, PSDB, São Paulo) was clear: he is against the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff. "I do not want Dilma to get out. I want the president to bleed. I do not want a country headed by [vice president] Michel Temer.” Then he explained: if the Workers’ Party (PT) government bleeds slowly, this can derail its chances in 2018. But a country under the command of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB), with a broken economy, could give back to the PT, led by former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the electoral chances of returning to power in the next election. In the same debate, recalling the so-called budget dwarfs scandal, in 1993, when the political alliance that would result in the Real Plan was formed, former President Fernando Henrique Cardoso compared that moment with the current disarray in the Rousseff government. He cited the dismantling of the power block formed by entrepreneurs — which "no longer has the funds to sustain the party" — and the frayed political system, in which the three main parties together do not account for a third of the Chamber of Deputies. "This is the time. The problem is who will seize it,” the former president said.
http://www.valor.com.br/international/news/3945202/psdb-leader-wants-rousseff-government-bleed-ahead-2018-vote
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Senator Aloysio Nunes Ferreira
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