Wi the brazilian worker's party fell in 2005?

This is a brazilian WI, so probably there will be not so many comments, but here is it

Right now the brazilian president Dilma is being impeached, while the WP government is in crisis, something simmilar happened in 2005, when the scandal of the "mensalão" (mês = month) was discovered, it was a massive money laundry scandal that abalated the brazilian congress, but since not only the WP was very popular, but the lack of decisive evidence against them, there was no impeachment

So what if they found some decisive evidence in 2005 and Lula got impeached?
 
So what if they found some decisive evidence in 2005 and Lula got impeached?

Brazilian politics gets even more divisive than it is nowadays. Even with PT and allied parties closing ranks and circling the wagons, there is a palpable sense of disillusionment with the current PT government within many of the party supporters; a 2005 impeachment(although I think it would be more of a 2006 one) would have none of this; 2005 is in the beginning of the previous decade economical good times, so what PT supporters would have in mind isn't the current difficulties, but what could have been if only those @#&$*s hadn't brought Lula down.

This means PT supporters will be out for blood, in a figurative sense(not so figurative for some, though). I suppose there is a possibility of the party turning back to its earlier attitudes regarding electoral platforms, which would ensure they don't get another shot at the presidency for some time(even given what I say below).

As for how things would go on for the new government? I'd say things would go quite similar at first, but the reaction to the 2008 crisis should be different, depending on who is in power. Should the reaction be an austerity program, expect things to be similar to FHC's second term in office, and a rise in PT support(which probably wouldn't translate into a new PT government, if the party returns to their pre-2002 attitude).
 
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