The Minister of Finance, Fernando Haddadsaid, this Tuesday (25), not being “Candidate for nothing” nas 2026 elections.
“I say this as a Brazilian who is not a candidate for anything next year And you are looking at Brazil with one goal: I would like my children to live in a safe country, with opportunities and social justice, ”said the minister.
The statement was made during a corporate event of BTG Pactual. Haddad spoke of criticism by him as unjustified to conduct economic policy by the president’s government Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT).
“We have an agenda here to fulfill, and the more support this agenda has of the people interested that the country advances, the easier it will be,” he said.
At the event, Haddad said “democracy was saved” with Lula’s election in 2022 and that this guarantees everyone “the freedom to do what he wants with the vote next year.”
“No one is forbidden to have ideological preference, to have a candidate in 2026,” he said.
“Now, we will not improve the country if we do not recognize what is being done. Since 2022, we have been working on the same agenda: structural reforms that will improve the business environment, ”he added.
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Affiliated to the PT, Haddad has repeatedly placed himself outside the 2026 presidential dispute as a possible successor to President Lula if he decides not running for a fourth term.
In an interview with CNN In January this year, Haddad had said he was “very happy with President Lula’s return to power” and that in the next election.
Haddad ran for president in 2018 after Lula became ineligible and arrested as a result of investigations of Operation Lava Jato. At the time, he lost to Jair Bolsonaro (today, at the PL; at the time, in the PSL) in the second round.
Already in 2022, Haddad ran for the government of Sao Paulo, when he lost, also in the second round, to the today Governor Tarcísio de Freitas (Republicans).
