Solon Brochado: After about a year of the Lula administration, some of the leftmost members of the PT went into a collision course with the Executive power on bills they deemed “too liberal”. The result was some senators and representatives were expelled, and decided to start a far-left party, called PSOL (Socialism and Freedom Party).
When petistas all over the country were shocked with the administration’s entanglements in the vote-buying scandal that triggered a crisis that’s still to pass, a good part of those utopian voters, who elected Lula in the hopes of a magical transformation of the country, turned to PSOL as the bearers of truth. After all, they stood by their principles, even when it meant being expelled from the party they had helped to start some twenty years before.
Now, a PSOL senator has been charged with collecting 40% of his employees’ income. He says it’s a conspiracy engendered by the PT administration currently on the government of Acre. At any rate, it should be interesting to see how the PSOL handles their first political scandal.
