Surprise with Lula: his Government presents an increase in corruption, greater than with Bolsonaro

Lula's Government, which came to repair the Jair Bolsonaro disaster, is not resigned to the recently published result of the corruption indices recorded by the NGO Transparency International, the oldest and most global in the history of world corruption.

Lula's party, the PT, has reacted harshly and indignantly.

According to this NGO, Brazil has lost 10 positions in world indices, moving to 104th position among 180 countries.

It appears as one of the most corrupt countries in Latin America and lost 30 positions compared to the last year of Bolsonaro's government.

Today Brazil appears in corruption indexes at the level of countries such as Algeria, Serbia and Ukraine.

The BBC Brazil has highlighted seven reasons to explain this setback in the Government's corruption rates as "the lack of commitment to rebuilding the systems and mechanisms to control corruption in the first year of Government", among them, it highlights, the interference in the autonomy of the institutions, appointing, for example, his lawyer and personal friend, Cristiano Zanin, to the Supreme Court, and not having respected the rule of the list presented by the prosecutors for the appointment of the important position of attorney general of the State, naming a conservative Catholic, a friend of his.

In its editorial last Thursday, the newspaper

O Globo

warned that the increase in corruption rates in Brazil is a risk, since "it discourages businessmen from investing in the country."

Lula has preferred to remain silent in the face of the increase in corruption rates and has left his defense to the president of his party, the PT, her faithful squire, Gleisi Hoffmann, who has even accused the NGO of corruption. of Transparency International.

“Explain first (referring to the members of the international NGO) who finances them, open their accounts, explain their businesses,” he wrote in X and added that it is a system for measuring global corruption “where the injustice of the law "It is applied in accordance with the interests of the Government and the elites."

Perhaps the greatest difficulty for Lula has been found precisely in the issue of fighting corruption.

Unlike his two past governments, Lula has had to come up against the fact that State institutions, such as Congress, the Judiciary or local governments, were dominated by corruption and with which he had to come to terms, offering them ministries. and positions in the State, to be able to govern and approve some of its most important measures.

There is a danger that also this year of municipal elections Lula will have to close his eyes when supporting candidates linked to Bolsonaro or negotiating with them in order to be able to choose his candidates and not repeat the last 2020 elections in which his party openly failed by failing to win. a single major local government.

Lula's difficulty is precisely that he has found himself, whether at the national or local level, with power in the hands of far-right politicians, with whom he needs more than to fight them head-on, to negotiate to recover ground to be able to carry out the reforms of fund that he wants to impose, precisely to reduce those corruption rates that embarrass a country.

Lula's Government, as the NGO Transparency International recognizes at the same time, has made efforts in the first year to renew institutions and civil liberties, as well as to reinforce aid mechanisms for the most needy classes and reinforce social policies. , something that has been recognized internationally.

Hence the need for Lula to know how to maintain a balance this year, to compensate for the disaster of the 2020 elections. Lula is going to need a strong balance to be able to recover the lost local power without making excessive concessions to the extreme right that he maintains, precisely in that local power, its reactionary force.

Ask a lot?

Perhaps, but if he dreams of a fourth term in 2026, when he turns 82, he and his party will need in these three years of government more than carrying out an ideological duel with his predecessor Bolsonaro to present concrete actions of profound social renewal that even restore the non-fascist right the hope of a Brazil reborn from the Bolsonaro nightmare, which despite everything, is still alive and with aspirations to return to power.

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