A agenda FIESP II: uma análise econômica do apoio da entidade ao impeachment de 2016

Abstract

FIESP's formal support for the impeachment process that removed President Dilma Rousseff, besides being unprecedented in the history of the industrial entity, was a turning point in the relationship that was created with the PT and, more precisely, with the government of the aforementioned representative. Especially because, the government followed almost entirely FIESP's suggestions on economic policies, and at the same time, they received much public support from this entity that remains the main industrial-class entity in the country. Rousseff's removal from the Presidency of the Republic ended a period (2003-2014) marked by the strong action of the political front formed by popular segments of society and even by FIESP itself. For this reason, the referred support for the impeachment will be investigated to elucidate the economic projection that the industrial class of the state of São Paulo materialized by deciding to act politically in favor of President Dilma Rousseff's impeachment. In consequence, against the maintenance of a project that, since the mid-2000s, combined economic growth with some degree of income distribution. This was done, pari passu, pursuing the following specific objectives: A) to clarify the political and economic context of the period preceding the impeachment process; B) to explain how FIESP abandoned its support for the liberal standard from the Washington Consensus and formed the neo-developmentalist front that supported the PT governments, to later on, abandon it in favor of the 2016 impeachment; C) to explain how the 2014-2016 crisis led FIESP to defend economic measures proposed by the MDB, linked to orthodox economics, that would not be implemented in PT’s government. A bibliographic review has been used in a double perspective, both exploratory and explanatory. The exploratory perspective is observed in the study of the economic theories and concepts, that will form the theoretical base of this dissertation. The explanatory perspective is evident when, in the light of the subjects brought by the previous exploratory research, this dissertation goes on to explain the economic factors that justify (or at least explain) FIESP's support for President Dilma Rousseff's impeachment. In addition, this work relied on the news published in the press of the class entities under analysis, as well as the mainstream corporate media. It was concluded that the support of the referred industrial entity to the impeachment was sought to maintain the process of cost reduction for the industrial sector that was already in course, but now under new bases and in a new economic and political scenario. The FIESP strategy, here referred to as the “Agenda FIESP II”, has been unable to create the necessary conditions to overcome Brazil's dependency condition. On the contrary, the adoption of policies carried out after Dilma Rousseff's removal from the Presidency of the Republic has deepened the dependence of the Brazilian economy, with the potential to destroy what has been achieved since the 1930 Revolution.