The Brazilian electoral campaign, increasingly rapid, dizzying, hypnotic,
revolves almost exclusively around the surprise candidate, Marina Silva, who
took office after the death on August 13 of the official candidate of the
Socialist Party of Brazil (PSB), Eduardo Campos, in a plane crash that shook the
country from top to bottom and the revolutionized everything. Since then, Silva,
a charismatic former minister of Environment of the Lula government, which he
learned to write at the age of 16 rises progressively in the successive surveys
as an unstoppable arrow without that by now, you will see the roof: at the time
of the last poll, made public last Friday, tied with the chairperson Dilma
Rousseff, of the Workers' Party (PT), in the first round, but exceeded the
current governor in the second and final by a comfortable margin of ten points.
However, the escalation of this 56-year-old woman who preaches a "new policy"
for Brazil, it had already begun to cracking by the contradictions which
encircle his candidacy and that his political opponents with possibilities to
govern, Dilma Rousseff and Aecio Neves, from the more conservative of the Social
Democracy Party (PSDB), have been quick to point out. All of this, to a day of
the second televised debate in which the candidates will be the faces and to a
month long in the first round, which is celebrated on October 5. One of these
contradictions -and no less - came the next day that Silva will present his
electoral program on Friday in a meeting room for events of Sao Paulo. The
Brazilian press highlighted one of their more innovative measures and brave,
which supported include in the Brazilian Constitution marriage between
homosexuals. As soon as they are made public the extent, started to rain
criticisms of pastors evangelists contrary to this standard. The same Marina
Silva is evangelist, a thriving religion in Brazil looking very conservative,
which generates no few accessions, votes and, in this case, pressures. Between
them, the pastor Silas Malafaia, which in its Twitter, followed by 774,000
people, claimed: "The Government program for Marina is a shameful defense of the
gay agenda". On Saturday, the direction of campaign de Silva sent a statement
which claimed that "a mistake" had slipped through the proposal and that the
true measure that the candidacy advocated on the gay marriage was "to ensure the
rights of the civil union between persons of the same sex", this is a version
more lax (and without the crucial constitutional amparo) of the same matter. A
reverse, in any case. Deputy Jean Wyllys, of the minority socialist formation
PSOL-RJ, active supporter of the cause gay in Brazil, it took not to accuse
Silva to give in to the first: "It only took four messages of pastor Malafaia to
Marina, in 24 hours, forget about the commitments made at a public event
transmitted by television and denied their own political agenda". The candidate
Aecio Neves also inquired in another possible contradiction of Silva, to ensure
the saturday that some of the main economic measures of the program seemed to
copied from theirs, by liberal tradition. Well stressed that the former minister
of environment had developed a liberal agenda in the economic, aimed to allow
more free hand to economic agents and cut the State intervention, little house
with the intention of Silva confesses to increase the content and social aid.
Neves Silva also accused of encouraging a certain "messianism" in politics that,
in the long run, and according to the leader of the PSDB, not serve but to
disappoint to the population and the voters. Dilma also center their election
rallies in attacking Marina Silva, which he accused, precisely, of wanting to
cut certain social benefits relating to housing. This double attack is
significant and reflects well to the clear that Silva has already become, in the
billiard to three bands which is the Brazilian campaign, in the dangerous enemy
to be overcome by the other two. This will be even more clear today, Monday, in
the second televised debate of the campaign. In the previous, held less than a
week ago, Rousseff and Neves ignored to Silva, focusing on a particular duel,
giving significantly back to the star candidate. Today there will be no other
choice but to deal with it to try to curb his ascension.
