Lula is going to build a government based on alliances, a government in which businessmen, bankers, trade unions -- the whole of society -- will participate. The trademark of Lula's government will be participation.

The government will be making every effort to bring down interest rates more and more so that sustainable growth can be consolidated.

This is the first time in a long time that Brazil has been able to put together so many favorable conditions for growth. And that fact is due to the economic policies that have been in effect over the last three years.

We cannot create artificiality, we cannot evade the principles of the floating exchange rate.

The Brazilian economy is moving forward like someone driving a car with their foot on the brake.

The economic policy will not change.