THE THIRD LULA GOVERNMENT: limits and perspectives

Abstract

The paper presents some reflections on the first six
months of the new government, taking into account
the evolution of the conjuncture in this short
period. In particular, it highlights its institutional
difficulties in relation to a parliament that is mostly
from the neoliberal right and extreme right, and
with a strong physiological connotation – which
characterizes Brazilian “coalition presidentialism”
and prohibits any type of structural change that
reduces social inequality. And he points out
that the confrontation and overcoming of these
difficulties, even if partial, cannot rely solely on
Lula’s negotiation capacity at the institutional level;
without popular mobilization, which expresses in
the streets the effective desire for structural changes
as explicitly done in the electoral campaign, the
correlation of forces will not become, fundamentally,
more favourable.