Special Features

• Understanding Afif Domingos' entrance to the Government

  13/5/2013 | 11:08

  The entry of Afif brings significant consequences to Dilma's re-election project in 2014, as well as to PT's goal of winning the seat as São Paulo's Governor. It guarantees to the...

• PT and allies pushing Eduardo Campos for clarity about 2014

  6/5/2013 | 13:57

  With the intense movement of Eduardo in recent months (visits to several states in the South and Southeast, meeting with entrepreneurs, meetings with political leaders), the Presidential Palace and...

• PSDB: Defeat by Serra's group in São Paulo's municipal directory board creates risks for the party

  22/4/2013 | 16:32

  Councillor Andrea Matarazzo, man of confidence of ex-Governor Jose Serra, and with the support of FHC and the governor Geraldo Alckmin, was internally defeated for the presidency of municipal...

• Legislative in collision with Executive and Judiciary

  15/4/2013 | 15:22

  Last week, the House of Representatives created a special committee designed to examine the merits of proposals establishing the so-called "authoritative Budget." The forecast is that the committee...

• Dilma focuses on the Northeast

  8/4/2013 | 17:52

  The Northeast region, with more than 38 million voters, has been key to the power project initiated by Lula in 2002, and followed by President Dilma Rousseff, due to the strong support of "lulism"...

• How not to be the opposition

  1/4/2013 | 15:41

  The fundamental point is to establish itself as an opposition party. Despite the oppositional discourse, the PSDB has done a poor job of organizing itself as the opposition. Why? The first...

• ICMS approval in the Senate will not be easy

  18/3/2013 | 17:17

  The governments of the North, Northeast and Midwest rejected a uniform ICMS, even with a transition phase of 12 years until it reaches a rate of 4% and the creation of a compensation fund and a...

• Royalties: consequences of the overturning of the veto

  11/3/2013 | 16:51

  Producing states, especially Rio de Janeiro and Espírito Santo, and non-oil-producing states should engage in a new dispute in the Federal Supreme Court (STF) with the decision in Congress,...

• 2014 Presidential candidates

  18/2/2013 | 17:10

  Dilma has high popularity and therefore is the favorite. Her main challenge is economic issues, including inflation and growth in the sector. In her favor, there is low unemployment, working social...

• The 2014 Chessmatch

  14/2/2013 | 10:52

  For Lula, who is the ultimate guardian of her formula, the best possible scenario would be a Dilma/Michel Temer ticket in 2014, with Eduardo Campos in the government as a ministered, being groomed...