Brazil's Governing Party Sets Out Plan to Confront Right-Wing

Brazil's ruling Worker's Party (PT) released a manifesto Tuesday detailing 10 proposals to tackle the crisis faced by President Dilma Rousseff, three months into her second term as leader.

The statement confirms that there is an anti-government campaign that seeks to “make the PT the scapegoat of national corruption and of difficulties in the economy.”

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“They can't stand that the PT, in such a short time, has taken 36 million Brazilians out of poverty,” the press release reads, calling right-wing opponents “bad losers in the democratic game.”

According to the manifesto, the corruption scandals in the state petrol company Petrobras were “denounced and investigated by our government,” moves which they point out “did not happen under previous governments.”

The document calls on the party activists to put into action a pro-PT mobilization to defend the government and to launch a “transformation,” which includes political reform and the creation of a tax on large fortunes.

Furthermore, the statement defends measures undertaken by the governemnt including increased workers' rights, extension of the agrarian reform, reform to the education system, and the search for new sources of financing for public health and back the laws of press regulation.

In early March, Brazil’s right-wing political forces organized marches against the democratically-elected government. Slogans on recent marches included #RIPDilma in reference to the president as well as calls for the military to intervene.

Critics of the right-wing have pointed out that it appears reluctant to accept the results of that election, seeking to implement their neoliberal agenda by whatever means they can.

The left-wing PT has been in power since Rousseff’s predecessor, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, was elected president in 2002.