The governor of Rio Grande do Sul confirmed his departure from and will sign the affiliation to the party, in an event scheduled for the afternoon of Friday (9), in the center of.
“The circumstances of the political and electoral scenario, both in Rio Grande do Sul and Brazil, require new paths,” said the governor in an official note released on Thursday (8).
Milk, which has, is one of the displeased toucans with the party’s merger negotiations with the completion. He even cited the merger in his farewell text from the PSDB.
“The time we spent together does not fall apart with this discharge: it remains part of the story we continue to build – now, perhaps by different ways, but looking at the same horizon. The PSDB itself lives a new moment, reflecting on its directions and discussing a possible fusion with Somos.
The gaucho had remotely participated in the meeting of the national executive of the acronym that authorized the merger on the 29th.
“If my movement goes towards another party, not the permanence when it comes to the PSDB in its merger, it will be for seeing the opportunity not only to participate, but also to lead the project [nacional]”, Leite told Sheet in an interview in late April.
In the PSD, he will have the internal competition of colleague, governor of Paraná, presented as – which, besides president of the acronym and secretary of government of (Republicans).
Elected governor of Rio Grande do Sul in 2018, Leite had tried to run for the presidency for the PSDB in 2022, after running in the previews against João Doria.
The former governor of São Paulo, who has also left the acronym, won the internal elections, but the party summit chose not to release a candidate. Leite, who had resigned from the term of mind to the Planalto Palace, tried again the government of Rio Grande do Sul and was reelected.
PSDB members had tried to merge with other subtitles, such as the MDB and the PSD itself, but negotiations did not advance. In early March, the governor of Pernambuco, Raquel Lyra, made the same movement as milk, to migrate to the PSD.
The PSDB even elected 99 federal deputies and seven governors in 1998, as well as 16 senators. In the past national election, when he didn’t even launch his own presidential candidacy, there were only 13 federal deputies, three governors and no senator. In addition, 2024 was the worst municipal election in the history of the PSDB.
With the departure of Raquel Lyra and Eduardo Leite, the PSDB is now with only one governor, Eduardo Riedel, from Mato Grosso do Sul.
Although Kassab is secretary of Tarcisio, ally of Jair Bolsonaro (PL), the PSD also controls three ministries in the government (PT): fishing, mines and energy and agriculture. Although he did not participate in the Lula plate in 2022, he joined the petista still in the transitional government.
On Wednesday (7), asked about this condition, Kassab said he did not see contradiction. “There is no antagonism, on the contrary, shows a healthy party, a party with good paintings, with respected people who have synergy with society.”
In the 2024 municipal elections, the PSD became the party with more municipalities under its command, with almost 900 municipalities.
The milk decision contributes to the emptying of the PSDB fusion with Somos, approved by the Tucana executive at the end of last month, but still depends on other formal steps. Alliance advocates tried to convince the RS governor to remain in the party.
