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Date Posted: 18:34:22 10/05/06 Thu
Author: Bilal Malek
Subject: Re: Task 9 - Brazilian elections
In reply to: Vanessa Bohn 's message, "Task 9 - Brazilian elections" on 16:53:01 10/04/06 Wed

>Task 9 - Letters to the editor
>I choose the Washington Times newspaper which
>published this article “Lula forced into runoff
>election”
> >href="http://www.washtimes.com/world/20061002-122843-21
>51r.htm">http://www.washtimes.com/world/20061002-122843
>-2151r.htm
>
>Brazilian people have a second chance to re-think
>about who is the better to govern Brazil, if is our
>present-day president Mr. Lula da Silva or the
>center-right candidate Geraldo Alckmin. Mr. Lula da
>Silva was the favorite candidate to win the first term
>with a large percentage, although everybody knows his
>party was involved in many scandals during this year;
>Mr. Lula da Silva got many votes, especially from the
>North and Northeast states. These two regions are
>populated by poor people and these ones are favored in
>his reforms. Mr. Lula da Silva created some programs
>such as “Zero Hunger” to help poor people. His ideas
>are excellent in theory but in practice it doesn’t
>work at all.We know that there are many people living
>withough food in their homes.
>The other regions are trying to say “No” for Mr. Lula
>da Silva and his party. Mr. Lula da Silva had his
>chance but now Brazilian people deserve a better
>president and maybe Mr. Alckmin can work as well as he
>did when he was the governor of Sao Paulo. We don’t
>want to see more corruption scandals such as
>“mensalão”, dollars hidden inside underpants and so
>on. All these happenings give a bad image for Brazil.
>
>Sincerely,
>Vanessa Bohn



I would have to agree with you Vanessa; the people do not deserve a President who is corrupt. Myself, I don't know enough about either candidate to know which one is better for the people. From what you are saying though, President da Silva has done all the good he can (even though it may have been superficial). But a question that I think needs to be raised is if Mr. Alckmin will be able to lead (and be loved by) the people, especially the poor people, as da Silva was.

I think your letter was very informative and gave me a better perspective on what is going on in Brazilian politics.

Thank You,
Bilal Malek

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