The president (PT) received on Wednesday (12) the governor of, (Republicans), for a meeting at the Planalto Palace. The meeting, which took place in the morning, was not on the agenda of either.
Originally the meeting would take place in Granja do Torto, a kind of country house of the presidency, but was eventually transferred. The two have been together on more than one occasion, always in the Planalto Palace.
Tarcisio is Lula’s political adversary, and one of the names cited for the succession of () in 2026, since the former president is ineligible. After the meeting at Planalto, the governor had lunch with Bolsonaro, even posting the meeting on social networks.
Tarcisio allies feared that a meeting of the Paulista Governor with Lula irritated the former president, who has already been critical of some routine movements of contact with the current federal government. In the view of these politicians, a confidential meeting would be seen with even more suspicion by the pockets.
A meeting between Lula and Tarcisio has been expected since late January. The justification for the audience would be to define who, after all, will make the bidding of the Santos-Guarujá tunnel. The work is estimated at R $ 6 billion in public resources, which makes it the largest venture of the new (Growth Acceleration Program).
A mixed bidding committee of the project was established on the 31st, with representatives of the federal and state governments, as well as members of Antaq (National Waterway Transportation Agency) and Artesp (São Paulo State Transport Agency).
The plan is that, in 15 days, this mixed commission is the bidding and who will be its main responsible, although in practice this decision will be made in a political hit between Lula and Tarcisio. The meeting must be attended by the Minister of MPOR (Ministry of Ports and Airports), and the Minister of the Civil House, Rui Costa.
The governor of Sao Paulo seeks to maintain a pragmatic stance with the federal government and is therefore often the target of criticism of the most radical pockets.
During last year’s electoral period, when Lula and Tarcisio were on opposite sides in the dispute for the City of São Paulo, the relationship was shudder and the president even publicly criticized Tarcisio’s absence at a federal government event with ads for São Paulo .
At the end of last year, the governor went to Planalto to attend an event with ads. The act, however, ended up giving way to a federal government displeasure against the end of the Bolsonaro government and in defense of democracy.
Alongside the governor of Sao Paulo and the mayor of the state capital, Ricardo Nunes (MDB), ministers of the first echelon of the government () criticized the coup acts and the plot of murder revealed by the investigations of that week.
