“The PT has made many mistakes, and no one is forced to put up with it”: Lula da Silva “undresses” his own party

In a particularly scathing speech against his own Workers’ Party (PT) and its most radical followers, Brazilian President Lula da Silva said the PT “has made many mistakes and no one has to accept that.” Lula made his strong criticism while speaking in front of more than a thousand guests during a reunion event for former Sao Paulo mayor and former minister Marta Suplicie, who is returning to PT after leaving the organization nine years ago, expressing disappointment and much criticism, especially towards himself Lula, who now avoids her and places all the blame on the party.

“PT made a lot of mistakes, and no one has to put up with the number of mistakes we make. And you (addressing Martha, standing next to her) suddenly got angry and left. Martha got angry at me (he used his own expletive, used in Brazil as bad slang to mean that the person in question was really furious) because she wanted me to be a presidential candidate in 2014,” Lula said, alluding to an episode in which then-Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff , also from the PT, refused to allow Lula to run for office and insisted on running for re-election herself, being elected but losing her position two years later in 2016 when she was removed from office by Congress. .

In his speech, in which he spared no effort in praising Marta Suplisi, whom some PT militants cannot support because she comes from a very rich aristocratic family and voted to overthrow Dilma in 2016, Lula pointed at the party itself. since he is largely to blame for the break with the former mayor. He also criticized militancy itself and its followers from the PT and other left-wing parties, who live in a kind of progressive bubble and refuse to dialogue with anyone who thinks differently, especially with the also radical followers of Jair Bolsonaro.

“We need to stop talking only about ourselves to ourselves. We need to speak to others for others. And every member of PT [apoiante do PT]every activist has the responsibility to stand up in his village and identify who does not vote for the PT, who does not like the PT, and go there and talk to this person, and not just talk to those who already like it,” criticized Lulu, then clarifying that This orientation among party activists toward dialogue with those who think differently includes evangelicals, an important segment of the Brazilian population that is largely anti-Lula, and even those who are followers of the former president. Bolsonaro, his main opponent Lula and the PT.