The parliamentarian praised his main ally in the campaign for Mayor of São Paulo, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) and said that it is the PT member ‘who can free Brazil from barbarism’
In the first public agenda after being defeated in the second round of the election for Mayor of São Paulo, the federal deputy Guilherme Boulos (PSOL) stated that the state governor, Tarcísio de Freitas (Republicans), “will not be president” in 2026. In a speech at the Bank Workers Union court in the capital of São Paulo this Thursday (7), the deputy also criticized Jair Bolsonaro (PL), who is counting on the approval of an amnesty in the Congress to reverse his ineligibility, effective until 2030, and contest the next presidential election. For Boulos, the former president’s electoral plan will have to “go over” the left.
Still about 2026, the parliamentarian praised his main ally in the campaign for Mayor of São Paulo, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT). According to Boulos, it is the PT member “who can free Brazil from barbarism”. “We have to be here in closed ranks to be able to build a campaign to defeat the extreme right in Brazil,” said Boulos. The extreme right, according to the federal deputy, can be either “that root and virulent one”, represented by the former president, “or one that eats with a knife and fork”, in an indirect reference to the governor of São Paulo.
It was not Boulos’s first criticism of the head of the São Paulo Executive. In a hearing with businessman and influencer Pablo Marçal (PRTB), the then PSOL mayoral candidate was asked what he thought of the governor of São Paulo. Boulos said that Tarcísio “did not leave a positive legacy” for the State, criticizing the head of the state Executive for the privatization of Sabesp. Furthermore, he stated that the governor’s participation in the election in the capital of São Paulo made the city a “springboard” for a future presidential candidacy.
The parliamentarian also commented on the performance achieved in the election for Mayor of São Paulo. Boulos obtained 2,323,901 votes in the second round, equivalent to 40.65% of the valid votes, and lost the dispute to Ricardo Nunes, re-elected with 3,393,110 votes, 59.35% of the valid votes. According to Boulos, the campaign for the mayor’s re-election is part of “a project that wants to use the city of São Paulo as a springboard for an attempt to return the extreme right in 2026”. The federal deputy also said that, by facing Nunes, he also challenged a powerful “machine”.
*With information from Estadão Conteúdo
Posted by Carolina Ferreira
