Under the conduct of the party president, federal deputy (PR), approved, during a tense meeting, on Monday (17), a change in the statute to allow the reelection of parliamentarians and party leaders who have already held three consecutive terms in the same legislative house or instance of the PT.
Despite the president’s preaching for renewal of his party, the amendment will enable deputies to compete for reelection even though they have already held the same function for three consecutive terms. As the senator’s mandate is larger, the candidacy would be prohibited for those who were already in the second consecutive.
Gleisi herself referred the vote, even claiming, when contested, that she knew how to direct the PT. In addition to her, the national secretary of Youth, Nadia Garcia, defended the proposal – which suspended the rule for the election of 2026.
The discussions were heated even before the vote on the merits, when petistas discussed what would be the quorum for the decision. During the hybrid, face -to -face and virtual debate, the secretary of communication, federal deputy Jilmar Tatto (SP), hit Boca with Valter Pomar, leader of the leftist joint.
Opponents of the decision threaten to judicialize on the grounds that change in the status requires qualified quorum. To reach two thirds of the national directory, 62 votes would be needed. The change was approved by 60 voters.
The suspended seal said the following:
“You will not be able to present yourself as a pre-candidate or pre-candidate to postulate the same position, the parliamentarian who has already been elected to three consecutive terms in the same legislative house, and in the case of the position of senator or senator, the parliamentarian who already has He was elected to two consecutive terms in the Federal Senate, “the statute said.
The prohibition of these candidacies would be effective in the 2026 elections. But by 60 votes please 27 against and five abstentions, the PT National Directory allowed the candidacy of these parliamentarians to reelection next year.
Nicknamed by members of the PT of Amendment Gleide Andrade – for enabling the reelection of the party treasurer – the proposal presented to the directory also allows the permanence of positions of positions in the party summit.
The approved text said: “The provisions of Articles 32 and 141 of the Party Statute will not apply (SIC) to the PED carried out on July 6, 2025 and the parliamentary elections of 2026, allowing leaders and parliamentarians to renew their elective mandates.” .
The article that was changed said: “They will be ineligible for positions in executive committees, at any level, affiliated and affiliates who have been members of the same executive committee by more than 3 (three) consecutive terms or two consecutive terms in the same position.”
In practice, this change could even allow Gleisi’s reelection, as she is in the second term of party president. But this hypothesis would be out of the question.
This is not the first time the statute has been changed to enable petist parliamentarians to reelection. In 2024, the gap opened to PT councilors. The counting of mandates began to be in 2011, after changing the petista statute.
By 61 votes in favor and 24 against, the PT command also approved the maintenance of direct elections to the party’s direction, including the party’s president, as provided in the statute. A wing of the acronym presented a proposal to be held in Congress.
The left of the PT cracked in this regard, as a current defended a hybrid model with party theses debates. Lula’s candidate, the former mayor of Araraquara Edinho Silva and the current led by the president, the CNB (building a new Brazil), defended the direct election.
The president’s election is scheduled for July 6. Edinho faces. New Brazil). The perspective of change in the party summit has fostered the opposition of the occupants of the current direction to the name of Edinho. Lula’s tendency threatens to rebel against his greatest leader, looking for options to his nominee.
Among Lula’s allies, the bet was that this resistance would cool after the president informed Petistas the intention to appoint Gleisi to the command of the General Secretariat of the Presidency.
Gleisi had been defending a name from the Northeast for his succession in the PT. With it out of office, the articulation of alternatives to Edinho could be reduced in government calculations.
But supporters of the former mayor of Araraquara had a sample of the difficulties when an invitation to a dinner with Edinho received criticism in the WhatsApp group of deputies that make up the PT’s majority current. The meeting was postponed.
