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Yet now, just one year after the huge mass demonstrations against the dictatorship for free elecuions, never will moving into the presidential palace not through the ballot box via tightly controlled electoral college, pretence at resistance from le millary. done?
The answer is 'pacts'. In the course of 1984 the PMDB opposition wound down the movement for direct elections which it had led and set about stitching pacts everyone possibly could.
The PMDB was itself already a mixed bag that included the Brazilian firmly led by politicians with business interests and secof the government machinery.
this alliance to include all ine malor sections of the business including multinational capital, down Brazil in mid-January at the news that the country would have a civilian, Tancredo Neves of the PMDB liberal opposition party, as its next president. The 686 delegates at the usually tame electoral college 'elected' Tancredo by a big majority over the military regime's own candidate. At the same time three striking cane-cutters were shot by police on the vast industrial plantations that produce sugar for most of the national state machinery and a torrent of their servility to the dic latorsip To the military hierar chy this new 'Democratic Alliance' promised no turning over old stones to setWILl responsible for torture 'disappearances' wholesale corruption. And it promised not to touch the retired officers who head up many of Brazil's huge nationalised corporations and who make up an important part of the new oligarchy ns in doubt: the nost mains in doubt: the important one. This is the social pact that t Tancredo is proposing with workers' organisations.
Tancredo can only deliver • on the promises to all his friends if he can persuade the Brazilian people especially the organised accept even more searing austerity exchange for civilian government! for well ...in exchange