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Weekly Report - 18 August 2011 (WR-11-33)

BRAZIL: Rousseff and the PT – skin deep?

With the exit of yet another minister this week, the fourth since June, and the formal withdrawal of a disgruntled ally from the ruling coalition, President Dilma Rousseff’s administration is in some disarray. Serious questions are being raised about Rousseff’s performance to date. Her supporters applaud what they say are groundbreaking efforts to tackle the entrenched corruption and cronyism in Brazil’s intensely clientelistic political system; critics accuse her of no more than PR-driven crisis management, motivated by short-term electoral priorities rather than any genuine commitment to reform. Intentionally or not, Rousseff is nevertheless breaking the mould, at some political cost to herself and to her relationship with her closest allies.

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