segunda-feira, 5 de setembro de 2016

TIME: QUEDA DE DILMA É O COMEÇO DA CRISE BRASILEIRA, NÃO O SEU FIM


Brasil 247 - A revista norte-americana Time publicou uma análise política sobre o Brasil um dia após o impeachment de Dilma Rousseff, em que afirma que o afastamento da petista é apenas o começo da crise brasileira, não o seu fim.

O texto avalia que o modo controverso como se deu o impeachment irá dividir o Brasil por pelo menos "uma geração". A Time destaca que o substituto de Dilma, Michel Temer, ainda sentiu a necessidade de negar, em sua primeira fala como presidente, que ele tinha praticado um "golpe" contra sua ex-companheira de chapa.

Para a revista dos Estados Unidos, o peemedebista, criticado por não ter nomeado uma mulher em sua equipe ministerial e vaiado na abertura da Olimpíada, tem "um difícil trabalho em suas mãos".

Um especialista político consultado pela reportagem, Juliano Griebeler, da consultoria Barral M Jorge, enxerga que "teremos um congresso forte e um executivo fraco" daqui para a frente. " Temer vai enfrentar algumas negociações muito difíceis", acredita.

Leia a íntegra da reportagem da Time, em inglês:

Dilma Rousseff’s Impeachment Is the Start of Brazil’s Crisis—Not the End

'People will disagree about this for a generation'

In the aftermath of the downfall of Brazil’s first female president, the country has begun to count the cost of a case that has sharply divided its citizens.

After a watershed day for the world’s fourth-largest democracy, as Dilma Rousseff was finally impeached by a overwhelming congressional vote on charges of budget manipulation, there was—perhaps surprisingly, given the heated nature of the year-long debate that has gripped Brazil —no great public outpouring of emotion.

In an impassioned statement, Rousseff said senators who had voted for impeachment had “condemned an innocent” in “one of the great injustices”. Her replacement, Michel Temer, while trying to maintain a statesmanlike tone in his first address as president—his position was interim before impeachment was completed—still felt the need to deny at length that he had led a “coup” against his former running mate.

“The narrative that Temer has stabbed her in the back will be polarizing for a long time in Brazil,” says Harold Trinkunas, a director of the Latin America Initiative at the Brookings Institute. “People will disagree about this for a generation.”

Defiant until the end, Rousseff’s removal came with a hiss not a bang.Small groups of protesters gathered in Brasilia, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, but nothing like the millions that have deluged the streets at times over the past three years. Rousseff lost the vote in Brazil’s senate 61-20, far beyond the two-thirds majority needed. She has suggested she will now appeal the case to the Supreme Court, although that body has so far repeatedly chosen not to interfere in the case.

The impeached president must now vacate the Palácio da Alvorada, the presidential palace that became her bunker, so Temer can serve out the remaining two years and three months of her term. He was sworn in by congress on Wednesday and has flown to China to attend the G20 summit at Hangzhou.

An unexpected decision yesterday by Chief Justice Ricardo Lewandowski, however, to allow a separate senate vote on whether Rousseff should be barred from office for eight years—which she won 42-36—means the impeachment president can immediately return to politics. She may contest a senate seat in her home Rio Grande do Sul state in 2018. The decision by the Chief Justice—acting as the presider over the impeachment trial, not as part of Brazil’s Supreme Court, surprised experts. “That decision would appear to have been highly unconstitutional,” says David Fleischer, a professor of politics at the University of Brasília. The constitution states that an impeached president is barred from public office for eight years.