The former coach () said in closed meetings with allies that his membership is already certain.
According to him, who was a candidate for mayor of São Paulo in 2024, the party’s national reach will help make his plan to run for President in 2026 viable. União is the second largest party in terms of bench size in the Chamber of Deputies among the acronyms of right, behind only the PL.
As the Panel revealed, . One of the weak points in the businessman’s candidacy in 2024 was his connection to the PRTB. The party has limited financial resources, no TV time and its leaders are (Primeiro Comando da Capital).
In the conversation with Marçal, União Brasil’s trump card is the absence of dominant national leaders in the party, a space that could be occupied by the former coach. The PL, with Jair Bolsonaro, and the Republicans, with Tarcísio de Freitas, would fall behind in this criterion.
Ronaldo Caiado (União), governor of Goiás, is also placing himself as a candidate for President in 2026. A possible negotiation on the matter with Marçal, however, must await the definition of processes that could lead to the businessman’s decision.
The main case involves the publication of a false medical report against () in an attempt to associate him with drug use, on the eve of the first round of the municipal elections.
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