Limitations of ‘keeping the good’

ged electoral maremagnum didn’t take place and things have returned to relative normality. At the moment of truth, Silva and Lacalle Pou almost repeated the percentages won by their political forces four and five years ago respectively. So the test didn’t meet a happy end, neither in Brazil nor in Uruguay, and much less in Bolivia, where a more frustrating experience happened two weeks ago.
The Brazilian environmentalist was the bearer of the promises to keep the Bolsa Familia plan and to raise the education budget up to ten percent of GDP from the current six percent, while she also adopted the recipe book for lower spending, tax cuts and looking toward the US before the Mercosur. That is how she attracted, if only for a while, a sea-changing voting intention from Aécio Neves, who represented a more genuine conservative proposal.

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