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Luiz Carlos Mendonca de Barros, former Communications Minister for Brazil, has called for Brazil's three main parties to come together and collaborate to solve the country's political stalemate.
According to de Barros, the government's Workers' Party (PT), its main ally, the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB), and the main opposition party, Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB) need to create a plan to improve governance.
De Barros, who served under President Fernando Henrique Cardoso (1995-2002), the last PSDB president, told the press Tuesday that Brazil is undergoing two separate crises.
The first is economic, caused by the saturation of the model of growth though consumption, and the second is political, generated by public frustration with the economy and corruption scandals. The former minister believes that the political crisis could therefore lead to an extension of the economic problems.
However, de Barros now believes the country's main political players have a chance to craft a large agreement favoring the government instead of continuing to try to bring it down.
"Clearly, a large share of society is conscious that this is not a time to provoke an institutional rupture," he said.
Last Sunday, over 600,000 Brazilians participated in protests against the government, with most calling for President Dilma Rousseff to resign. Prominent PSDB politicians, such as Aecio Neves, the defeated candidate in last year's presidential elections, participated in the gathering.
However, de Barros considers that there are no grounds for impeachment and that the best call would be a pact for governance to allow Rousseff to carry out necessary economic adjustments.
The only exception to such an agreement, he said, would be if the president directly became embroiled in the corruption investigation against oil giant Petrobras.
"In a democracy, when a concrete fact is presented and a crime becomes known, one cannot wait to prosecute due to a need for governance," said de Barros. Enditem
