The debates will decide the stop

Two debates, this Sunday's on Band and the 23rd on Globo, will decide the dispute for the Presidency of the Republic. This is the first time a similar situation has been reached. Lula, approved or rejected, is known. Flávio Bolsonaro has a surname that carries with it anti-PTism. It is a poor and irreducible division, suffice it to say that it has been there for 18 years with the same agenda. When Lula 3.0's lights went out, he raised this flag and Congress approved the 5x2 scale for workers.

A pandemic came, 700,000 people died and not a single new idea appeared in the area of ​​health. When one appears, it is fought in the dark of Brasília.

Fernando Henrique Cardoso brought the Real and gave back the value of the currency to Brazilians, Lula 1.0 brought Bolsa Família and ProUni, took the country off the hunger map and took humble students to university.

From then on, Brazil experienced a cycle of horrors: secret budget, Pix amendments, coup plot. To everyone's astonishment, the reputation of some Supreme Court ministers collapsed, dragging down the court's respectability. Brazil has become an exporter of food and oil, but despite its splendid birth, the giant appears to be lying on a bed of nails.

Agribusiness, which gives muscle and pride to the interior of the United States, boosts the national economy, but is still seen by a well-thinking part of Brazil as a persistent Jeca Tatu.

(While there are people who dream of transforming neighborhoods in Pindorama into little Miami, it is there that the agribusiness crowd invests in real estate. The son of a former president lives — on the run — in the United States, another in Spain.)

This year's election would be a good opportunity to envision a future, but so far this has not happened. We can only hope for the quality of the two debates.