The embarrassment of those who have chosen a commissioned position for a commissioned position who, in the exercise of their function, are unable to carry out the task efficiently is daily news in the media. The distribution of posts in professionalized party politics entails many losses for the population. Someone is preserved by the commitment signed with the party. To get the government, one must ally with the unknown.
The public man lacks the courage to act as a representative of those who elected him. He does not own the state structure. It’s a temporary server. He has an obligation to make it work in a way that meets society’s expectations and seeks to achieve the common good.
For the fearful or vacillating it would be interesting to examine how the great Brazilians have dealt with a similar situation in the past.
I am thinking of Lafayete Rodrigues Pereira, who, as president of the Council of Ministers of Emperor Pedro II, had to give up the services of his fellow Minister of War, Counselor Rodrigues Júnior.
I didn’t hesitate. He wrote him a letter as follows:
“Excellent friend and fellow adviser Rodrigues Júnior: I ask Your Excellency’s permission to tell you frankly, but respectfully, that it would be a wise act on your part to retire from the ministry. Strength is to confess, it has produced a remarkable lukewarmness and lack of proper direction in the war affairs. to recognize an illustrious citizen and coreligionist worthy of every consideration. I have the honor of being, with the highest esteem, a friend and colleague of Your Excellency, very affectionate and thank you. (a ) Lafayete Rodrigues Pereira. Rio, 29 February 1884?.
Think of the uproar that the disclosure of the terms of that letter aroused in Parliament and in public opinion. Opposition MPs used the episode to provoke the Prime Minister. When asked about the reasons that had originated the letter, he replied: “That reason is indicated in the letter itself”.
The defendant himself, the Minister of War, insisted: “Deny a fact to Your Excellency, tell me what was the mistake I committed!”.
The Minister of War did not give up on remaining in office. He returns to the rostrum and says: “These expressions of your Excellency, thrown there so vaguely, by themselves, prove nothing.” Lafayete’s reaction: “I leave it up to the conscience of the Chamber to judge the validity of the reasons given by me”.
Rodrigues Júnior became even more irritated and attacked: “The Prime Minister has lacked the truth, he has acted disloyally, with perfidy and with the docility of character which is characteristic of His Excellency”.
Counselor Lafayete, however, was not used to letting his opponent have the final say in a controversy. For those who witnessed the scene, the Minister of War paid dearly for this latest aggression.
As he took the podium, Lafayete delivered the following speech:
“I do not want and should not respond to the speech of the honorable deputy ex-minister of war. I have already expressed my thoughts on him. I understood, in my opinion, that His Excellency did not have the necessary aptitude to “direct the affairs of the war. It’s my judgment and I have to govern myself with my own head. Faced with this judgement, I invited the noble deputy to retire from the ministry. The noble deputy is a man with a spirit full of vacillations and hesitations. Many times, faced with his hesitations, I became convinced that Buridan’s hypothesis was reality and not fantasy.
Jean Buridan was a 12th-century French philosopher. To defend free will against determinism, he imagined the hypothesis of a donkey suffering equally from hunger and thirst. Placed in front of a bundle of grass and a bucket of water, what would the donkey do? It was about upholding the freedom of preference. Hesitation would starve the donkey.
How superior were the debates in the Parliament of the Empire!
*José Renato Nalini is dean of the Uniregistral, postgraduate professor at Uninove and general secretary of the Academia Paulista de Letras
Source: Terra
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