Deputy Gilberto Nascimento (-SP) was elected new president of the Evangelical Parliamentary Front on Tuesday (25), following a reissue of the polarization between (PT) and (PL).
He defeated Otoni de Paula (MDB-RJ), who was once Bolsonaro’s squire in Congress, approached last year, and was treated as a governor by opponents.
Birth, in turn, is closer to Bolsonaro and treated by opponents as auxiliary line of Pastor Silas Malafaia – who says he has nothing to do with this claim.
He was elected with 117 votes against 61 for Otoni. There were even five blank votes.
There was a third candidate, Grayce Elias (Avante-MG), but left the dispute after Bolsonaro’s appeal, reports. The first two names were already the main quotes.
The elected will take office on Wednesday (26), when there will be the traditional cult of Santa Supper.
The vote, which is paper, lasted about three hours and mobilized members of the government and opposition. According to those who closely follow the work, there were not so many people engaged in the choice for a long time.
The dispute to choose the name that will command one of Congress’s biggest themed benches is unprecedented. Initially, it was scheduled last December, but was postponed before the crack.
During the hours when the vote was open, senators such as (PL-RJ) and (Republicans-DF) were present to support birth.
According to members of the opposition, they also voted by weight names of parliamentarians from the allied base that, although they belong to the front, are less active in the evangelical bench.
The vote was chaired by the current president, Deputy Silas Câmara (Republicans -AM), who made an arrangement with colleague Eli Borges (-to) in early 2023. It was electoral season between evangelical deputies, and there was an impasse on which one would be anointed by the pairs.
Before the end result, Otoni told the Sheet who was not a governing candidate, but that Bolsonaro officialized the polarization by asking the withdrawal of Greyce’s candidacy.
Although everyone recognizes greater affinity for one candidate with Lula or Bolsonaro, deputies complain about the politicization of the dispute.
They have tried at all costs to build an agreement so as not to decide by vote who will command them, preferring that the choice had been by acclamation.
House and Borges took turns in power, one semester each, since then. The claim. Now, in 2025, the crack repeats itself.
Silas Malafaia does not shy away from praising Gilberto Nascimento, who is a dean of the bench and has his support in the general. It would be a “moderate deputy, pleasant to all of more than ten terms.”
Last year, Otoni told the Sheet that attacks against his candidacy came from “a minority group that shows how small became our ability to make the” capital “policy.
As he said that “the evangelical front is not pulled from pockets,” of which he was already a faithful squire, he also said that she “is not used to meeting the interests of the current president.”
It signaled, however, that Lula has his appreciation. He said that if they labeled it as the government’s ascla for honoring “public policies that have somehow benefited our people [os crentes]because they take the base of the social pyramid, then I can do nothing. “
Otoni criticized the left in general, but says it is not up to him to “curse Lula”, in a replay of the “belligerent behavior that one day I had” against.
Otoni’s approach with the government was sealed during an event at the Planalto Palace in October, with members of the evangelical bench, during a sanction ceremony of the National Gospel Music Day.
The meeting took place amid an attempt by the government to approach the segment, which still maintains strong hangs with pockets.
At the time, the parliamentarian made several compliments to Lula and his social policies. Days later, the president said the deputy was being shredded by the pockets.
