Governability express the possibility of the government of a nation hold public policies resulting from the convergence of multiple instances of the national state with each other and this with the civil society organizations. Within the national state has observed the growth of opposition to the Dilma Rousseff government in parliament that swells with the resistance against their recessive and anti-social economic policy, as well as its bad relationship with supporters sectors related to its support base in Congress. Under the Civil Society already observed opposition movements to the government's economic policy by sectors linked to labor unions and the middle class that also react against the administrative debacle, ethical and moral of those in power. The opposition to the Dilma Rousseff government and the PT (Worker Party) is growing to the point that some sectors of civil society propose the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff and other even military intervention.

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HOW DILMA ROUSSEFF CAN CONQUER GOVERNABILITY TO KEEP IN
POWER
Fernando Alcoforado *
The government of President Dilma Rousseff will only be able to exercise with
effective governability if take place public policies that address the interests of the vast
majority of the Brazilian nation. To face the crisis ravaging the Brazilian economy at
the time, the Dilma Rousseff government decided to adopt a clearly recessive economic
policy that tends to further aggravate the weak Brazilian economy and antisocial policy
with the adoption of measures restricting labor rights to hamper access to
unemployment insurance, pensions for death, salary and sick bonuses. The disastrous
economic policy that the Dilma Rousseff government will implement that benefits,
especially the national and international financial system, will inevitably result in the
vast majority of Brazilian society to stand against the State compromising its
governance.
Importantly, governability express, in short, the possibility of the government of a
nation hold public policies resulting from the convergence of multiple instances of the
national state with each other and this with the civil society organizations. Within the
national state has observed the growth of opposition to the Dilma Rousseff government
in parliament that swells with the resistance against their recessive and anti-social
economic policy, as well as its bad relationship with supporters sectors related to its
support base in Congress. Under the Civil Society already observed opposition
movements to the government's economic policy by sectors linked to labor unions and
the middle class that also react against the administrative debacle, ethical and moral of
those in power. The opposition to the Dilma Rousseff government and the PT (Worker
Party) is growing to the point that some sectors of civil society propose the
impeachment of Dilma Rousseff and other even military intervention.
There is only one way to Dilma Rousseff avoid impeachment and military intervention
and reconcile with the vast majority of the nation that is the abandonment of recessive
and anti-social economic policy that decided to take in view the interests, particularly
the national and international financial system. The maintenance of this harmful
economic policy to most of the nation's interests tends to promote negative economic
growth of GDP in the coming years with serious repercussions for the drop in income of
the population and the rise in unemployment. This scenario tends to increase social
tensions and threatening the governability of Dilma Rousseff government. To avoid the
collapse of the Brazilian economy and its own government, Dilma Rousseff should
adopt immediately the national developmentalist economic model of selective opening
of the Brazilian economy that would include the immediate adoption: 1) the
renegotiation of payment of the foreign debt and domestic debt public of the country
aimed at reducing the burden to 1/3 or ¼ of the federal budget to raise public savings
for investment; 2) the adoption of a fixed exchange rate to replace the floating exchange
rate to protect the domestic industry; 3) control of the inflow and outflow of capital;
and, 4) the nationalization of banks to ensure liquidity to citizens.
In addition to these initial steps described above, the Rousseff administration should
adopt in short-term economic policies that prioritize: 1) the drastic reduction of public
spending costing reducing the number of ministries from 39 to 15 or 20 and the
elimination or reduction to a minimum need of commissioned positions that are about
20,000; 2) the sharp reduction in interest rates to encourage investment in productive

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activities; 3) the selective import of raw materials and essential products from overseas
to reduce expenditures in currency of the country; 4) the reintroduction of market
reserve in areas considered strategic for national development; 5) the re-nationalization
of privatized state enterprises considered strategic to national development; and, 6) the
adoption of a tax policy that can provide the resources that the state would need to
invest in education, health, social security and infrastructure sectors, among others and
encumber as little as possible the population and the productive sectors. It can be seen
from the above, that the national development project would cause Brazil to take on the
direction of your destination, unlike neoliberal or social liberal model in place since
1990 that makes the future of the country is dictated by the forces of market all of them
committed to national and international financial capital.
In addition to announcing to the nation the set of measures described above, Dilma
Rousseff should set up a crisis cabinet composed of persons of the highest competence
and the highest ethical and moral feedback and respectability for the nation's respect and
ensure the governance of their government. To avoid any interruption in public
investment and state companies already contracted, the Rousseff administration should
create Engebras, public engineering company, with a mission to manage and make the
projects and works contracted by the government and companies public and mixed
economy continue running. The main objective of Engebras would be to avoid paralysis
in public investments supporting the consulting engineering and the execution of large
works companies in difficulties in implementing their contracts preventing dismantling
as a result of Operation Lava Jato investigating corruption at Petrobras and also the
disruption of engineering teams. With the crisis cabinet, the Dilma Rousseff
government could practice governance necessary for the exercise of government.
The crisis of governance in Brazil today is materialized in practice with the plummeting
confidence indexes of the population in public institutions and in street demonstrations
against the poor quality of public services in general. At federal level, the government
disarticulation with its support base in parliament, its disagreement with the social
movements and the economic agents and the errors of economic policy which further
aggravated the crisis that befalls the Brazilian economy complement this picture of a
government, such as Dilma Rousseff, who cannot operate competently political and
administrative action in order to produce satisfactory results for the benefit of the vast
majority of the population.
It is important to note that governance is related to the financial and administrative
capacity of the government of a nation state and the competence of its managers to
practice public policies. Governance is the responsibility of government managers to
practice the decisions taken or, in other words, the ability of the nation-state exercising
its government. Governance is to transform the government act in public action,
articulating the government's actions at all levels and with civil society. No
Governability conditions are impossible proper governance. Brazil is experiencing a
crisis of governance in the face of operational failure of federal, state and local produce
in the results demanded by society. Good governance can increase the legitimacy that a
people carry the government, thus increasing the governance of the country.
Governance means the existence of a political, legal and social structure for the
development and implementation of public policies. Governance means the
government's ability to manage well, articulate the diverse interests and effectively
implement these policies. This would be the positive agenda that the Dilma Rousseff

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government should put in place to prevent Brazil to be brought to the scorched-earth
situation if kept recessive and anti-social economic policy in force.
*Fernando Alcoforado , member of the Bahia Academy of Education, engineer and doctor of Territorial
Planning and Regional Development from the University of Barcelona, a university professor and
consultant in strategic planning, business planning, regional planning and planning of energy systems, is
the author of Globalização (Editora Nobel, São Paulo, 1997), De Collor a FHC- O Brasil e a Nova
(Des)ordem Mundial (Editora Nobel, São Paulo, 1998), Um Projeto para o Brasil (Editora Nobel, São
Paulo, 2000), Os condicionantes do desenvolvimento do Estado da Bahia (Tese de doutorado.
Universidade de Barcelona, http://www.tesisenred.net/handle/10803/1944, 2003), Globalização e
Desenvolvimento (Editora Nobel, São Paulo, 2006), Bahia- Desenvolvimento do Século XVI ao Século XX
e Objetivos Estratégicos na Era Contemporânea (EGBA, Salvador, 2008), The Necessary Conditions of
the Economic and Social Development-The Case of the State of Bahia (VDM Verlag Dr. Muller
Aktiengesellschaft & Co. KG, Saarbrücken, Germany, 2010), Aquecimento Global e Catástrofe
Planetária (P&A Gráfica e Editora, Salvador, 2010), Amazônia Sustentável- Para o progresso do Brasil e
combate ao aquecimento global (Viena- Editora e Gráfica, Santa Cruz do Rio Pardo, São Paulo, 2011)
and Os Fatores Condicionantes do Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social (Editora CRV, Curitiba, 2012),
among others.