Defeated in the election for Mayor of , the federal deputy () stated, this Thursday (7), that the governor (Republicans) can put the “viola in the bag because he will not be president of the Republic in 2026”.
He also said that the victory in the United States “encouraged a group over there to say that the ineligible must become eligible”, in reference to the former president (). “They’re going to have to go over us, because it won’t be,” he added.
The deputy held, at the Bank Workers’ Union court, in the center, his first public event after losing to the mayor (), who.
Despite having the support of the president () and having , Boulos repeated his result from 2020, when he lost () by 40.62%, against 59.38%.
In his speech, the congressman said he faced a powerful machine and “a project that wants to use the city of São Paulo as a springboard for an attempted return of the extreme right in 2026.”
He claimed to have been a victim of lies and fake news, such as the false report by () and the then PSOL candidate. “And the Electoral Court does nothing,” he added.
Boulos also defended the ineligibility of Tarcísio and the impeachment of Nunes for what he considered an electoral crime — his campaign.
The deputy indirectly criticized Bolsonaro by saying that there were those who lost the election. When asked by the report if he called Nunes to acknowledge his defeat, as is customary, he said he did not do so, but that he never stopped acknowledging that he lost at the polls.
“I didn’t care because I faced one of the lowest campaigns seen in the history of Brazilian democracy,” he replied.
As he told journalists, the Lula government “is suffering a siege” and the left needs to unite to face this situation.
“On the one hand, a speculative siege by Faria Lima, which wants to pressure the government at any cost to . [Do outro lado]the Lula government is under siege from the center in Congress, from the right and from the extreme right in society.”
The act called “The Future is Ours” had the objective of “organizing the fight against Bolsonarism”, according to the deputy’s advisors. In his speech, Boulos took stock of the campaign and pointed out directions for 2026. Behind him, a banner said that “hope is revolution; discouragement is conservative.”
He acknowledged mistakes in his campaign and said that it is necessary to reorganize the left, which “suffered a defeat nationally”, to wage a permanent cultural and values dispute with the extreme right, “which has grown”. For the deputy, only Lula among the left can win in 2026.
“When we see people who use the SUS, who have children in public education and who vote for the candidate who defends a minimum state and privatize everything, at some point we made a mistake. When we see that more impoverished worker, who depends on social programs, and who He didn’t vote for us out of fear of communism, it’s because at some point we made a mistake.”
When speaking to the press after speaking, Boulos stated that the left cannot abandon the defense of rights, such as women’s rights, and the fight against racism. “Another thing is to turn this into the center of the political dispute, which is what the extreme right does. We cannot fall into this trap”, he added.
Em After the defeat, the federal deputy stated that the left dressing up as a center would be “a historical suicide”.
Throughout the campaign, however, Boulos even went back on defending the legalization of drugs and .
When asked if this wouldn’t exactly be masquerading as the center, he denied it and said he defended that the left should dialogue and form compositions with the center.
“In fact, I defend that Lula presents the broadest front necessary to be re-elected in 2026. Another thing is for the left to become the center. My campaign did not do that at all,” he said.
“I ran a campaign defending the homeless movement, defending the renationalization of funeral services, intervention in bus companies, fighting privatizations, [defendendo] popular housing in an abandoned building. I don’t know which political center in the world defends this, we didn’t run a centrist campaign. We seek to dialogue with the center camp.”
The event was attended by federal deputy (PSOL-SP), federal deputy Rui Falcão (PT-SP), federal deputy Orlando Silva (PC do B-SP), former deputy José Genoino (PT), the municipal president of PT, Laércio Ribeiro, the campaign’s marketer, Lula Guimarães, as well as deputies and councilors from PT and PSOL.
Erika Hilton thanked Boulos for joining a campaign that she called violent, cruel and unfair. She defended that the left should resume “enchanting people”, especially the working class, who in her opinion “have not been able to see who the real villains are”.
Rui Falcão defended that the unity of the left remains even after the election. According to him, it is necessary to reconnect with the working class and. The former PT president also criticized the government.
“The one we defeated at the polls. They want to suffocate us, putting a noose around our necks to take away the rights of the working classes. The government is just not power, the government has power when it is backed by the working class, by the population, when it has hegemony of ideas and more”, he stated.
“The system we have to fight is the capitalist system, which devastates nature and produces brutal concentration of income, which helps explain why Trump wins the election despite being convicted,” said the PT member.
Bolsonaro told Sheet that Trump’s election to the White House is a , despite being ineligible until 2030. In the São Paulo election, he supported Nunes, which gave space for Boulos to link his rival to the extreme right, but the former president of the mayor’s campaign.
