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During the first 30 months of the Workers Party (PT) government in Brazil, few raised their voices to criticize the party for withdrawing from its social proposals. The press and the militancy displayed no anxiety about its political deviation towards more conservative social positions. 
Starting this week, it is enough to count up to 30. The House has up to the last day of the month to vote Brazil's political and electoral reforms, already approved in the Senate. When the deadline is reached, it doesn't matter whether they still vote this year or in the coming years. 
When Peter Robb's book A Death in Brazil was published in 2004 I tried to read it but gave up towards the end as I found it to be nothing more than a dull travelogue padded out with recollections of previous trips and a bit of historical background. Behind the melodramatic title lay a collection of banal comments, the dirty mind of a schoolboy in relation to sex, unconvincing claims that the author's life had been in constant danger and feeble attempts to create local characters. 
In a July 1998 Veja magazine interview I suggested that, were he to be elected president, Lula should keep Finance Minister Pedro Malan and Central Bank President Gustavo Franco in their posts for one hundred days. The idea was a simple one: the candidate needed to tranquilize the financial sector, and the new president would need a transition period before initiating the reforms that Brazil expected.
It's just past five o'clock on a cold, dark afternoon in central London. Inside a tastefully refurbished and resoundingly empty shopping district, even Starbucks has closed for the day, and the only person open for business is a guy selling tat to unsuspecting tourists. But among the counterfeit underwear sporting logos of the Underground, a gleam of gold and green is clearly visible: a scarf bearing the words "Brasil, Pentacampeão."