Showing posts with label Brazil. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brazil. Show all posts

Saturday, April 27, 2013

Challenging the protege

Lula's reviving ambitions could set him on a collision course with 'protege' Roussef in the coming months

The stocky and bald ex-president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who has been the lynchpin of the ruling Workers’ Party (PT), seems to be ready to square up with his handpicked successor Dilma Rousseff for the presidential throne again. Although he has said that Brazil needs a mother (referring to Dilma Rousseff), his personal ambitions are on the ascent. He recently intoned, “I am not going to let some Tucano be President of Brazil again.” Tucano is the brash nickname for his arch rival from the opposing ‘Brazilian Social Democracy’ party. Further, he also drove home a point at a Brazilian TV show, where he said that he can contest the next election if Rousseff “doesn’t want to run.”

There is no denying the fact that Lula’s popularity in Brazil can daunt the staunchest of opposition. If he so desires, he can bring the entire country to a standstill and mesmerize voters with his charisma. After returning from successful cancer treatment, he has already started to flex muscles within his Workers’ Party. That Lula’s veto is valued by civilians was clear when Lula backed one Mr.Haddad for the Sao Paulo mayoral post, trampling the ambition of the more popular and currently serving Marta Suplicy.

So far, he has only presented himself as a back up to Rousseff. But considering that the elections are still some way off, it is quite possible that Lula is only playing himself in! But Rousseff has matched his performance and even taken some tough decisions. She has sacked eight ministers who belonged to Lula’s coterie.

These are writings on the wall that Lula cannot take his election for granted. He has to match the roll-off benefits of his protégé Rousseff. And lastly, Lula has to push back on some of his strong armed tactics; or else cracks in his relations with Rousseff could start becoming evident sooner rather than later.


Source : IIPM Editorial, 2013.
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Friday, November 23, 2012

Animal index!

India would surely rank high on it

According to a recent report released jointly by Assocham and PwC, India is still way behind other BRIC countries when it comes to public spending on social sectors like health, education, providing access to healthy water, sanitation, schemes for elderly population et al. While India’s public spending on education and health was about 6% and 5% respectively according to the latest Indian Economic Survey, the same for its BRIC counterparts like Brazil, Russia and China is around 7.9% and 5.2% and 4.9% on health, and 12.8%, 12.9% and 10.2% on education respectively. The low public spending by India on health is visible by high mortality rate and growing health problems.


Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.

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