Federal Deputy states that the name of former mayor of Araraquara is “consolidating” for the internal election of the party scheduled for July
Federal Deputy Zeca Dirceu (PT-PR) said on Saturday (15.ar.2025) that “water cooled” in the internal crisis around the succession of the PT command.
“He [Edinho] He is consolidating himself, ”said Zeca Dirceu, arriving for his father’s 79th birthday party, the former minister which gathered the petista militancy in downtown São Paulo to celebrate its 79 years with a feijoada. The PT’s internal election is scheduled for July 6.
Former mayor of Araraquara and a name supported by President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva for office, Edinho Silva is resistance from the PT due to his moderate profile, considered less combative than Gleisi Hoffmann, who left the party’s presidency to occupy the Ministry of Institutional Relations, responsible for the articulation of the government with Congress.
On February 20, Edinho participated in a lunch promoted by businessman Márcio Toledo and his wife, former mayor Marta Suplicy, in São Paulo. Among those present were former toucan senator José Aníbal and former emedebista minister Nelson Jobim. Also there was former Finance Minister Antonio Palocci, who in award-winning denunciation said Lula received bribes. Palocci left the PT and turned persona non grata in the party. At the meeting, Edinho defended the union of the left with the center to combat the pockets in 2026.
The members of the PT majority current, called CNB (building a new Brazil), received Lula on March 6 at a meeting held at Gleisi’s apartment in Brasilia. At the meeting, they spoke of the discomfort with Edinho and the resistance to his name. Alternatively, the PT senator and interim president, Humberto Costa (PE), the president of the Perseu Abramo Foundation, Paulo Okamoto, Federal Deputy Rui Falcão (SP) and the leader of the government, José Guimarães (CE).
Three days later, at an event in the interior of São Paulo, Edinho stated that the existence of the meeting of Brasilia was leaked to the press to embarrass Lula, as a “instrument of internal struggle” among the petistas.
