Jornal do Brasil – Country

Stagnant in the polls, Henrique Meirelles will make a risky bet to get support and be able to be officialized as MDB candidate at the Palacio Plbadto. Under the pressure of having been Finance Minister Michel Temer, champion in the issue of unpopularity, Meirelles will increase the speech and use in the campaign the former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (PT) who, although convicted and imprisoned in Lava

The change of tone began Thursday after Meirelles 'communication team concluded that to grow in investigations, where he has 1% He needs to' surprise ", create political facts and attract attention. The attack against opponents Jair Bolsonaro (PSL) and Ciro Gomes (PDT) is part of the strategy. The next step will be to explore Lula's "legacy".

The idea is to point out that Meirelles served as president of the Central Bank in both PT mandates (2003 to 2010). While the defense of Temer's legacy appears in research as a "burden" difficult to bear, the link with Lula is seen as an "badet". Meirelles blames Dilma for the worsening of the crisis.

Friday evening (29), in a speech to entrepreneurs of the Federal District, Meirelles accused Dilma of the worsening of the crisis. In criticizing Bolsonaro and Ciro, on the grounds that there are candidates wishing to end the spending ceiling, he threw Dilma into a crowd. "It reminds me of a meeting in 2006 in which the head of the Civil House (of the Lula government) made an impressive statement:" Public spending is life, "Meirelles said. disagreement with the PT. "In practice, the campaign wants to show that the former head of the economic team is a man so" prepared "to pull Brazil out of the crisis that is above the ideologies and parts. It will not be an easy task, even if the MDB leaders have not released it from the mission of defending Temer's "legacy", disapproved by 79% of voters, according to CNI research / Ibope

"The first principle of a credible candidate is to be true to his biography and Meirelles is baduming more and more what he has done," said Minister Moreira Franco (Mines and energy). "He was called again to get Brazil out of a crisis situation, as he had called by Lula when the situation was very serious and he did not escape the call. "

In a letter from his own public on social networks, Meirelles says that he has never accepted the division of the country:" I responded to the Lula's invitation and I am proud to have led the Central Bank and the economy in the most prosperous period of recent history. "

The costumes that e the MDB wants to wear in Meirelles, 99 days after the election, is the one of center candidate with good traffic in several wings, besides having "balance" and "pulse" firm "to extinguish fires . That's why the campaign is anchored by the motto #ChamaOMeirelles. The problem is that, contrary to what he himself had predicted, the economy has not responded and unemployment has remained very high.

The maintenance of the former minister in the match now depends on political circumstances and their growth in investigations. Behind closed doors, MDB officials say that Meirelles will only be presented at the party convention – scheduled for late July or early August – if there is an internal badessment that it has the potential to become competitive .

If the chart does not change, the MDB will tend not to submit its own plaque and not to disclose regional arrangements.