Under the president’s interference, CNB (building a new Brazil) sacrament on Monday (19) support for the candidacy of former Mayor Edinho Silva to the party’s command, ending a dispute in the largest petista force.
With unification, it is estimated that Edinho gets 55% of the votes, which would guarantee him the victory in the first round. He is expected to face three minority currents: Federal Deputy Rui Falcão (SP) and petist leaders Valter Pomar and Romênio Pereira. A will be on July 6th.
Sealed in meetings that invaded Sunday night, the agreement was materialized in. Quaquá announced the withdrawal of the candidacy on Monday, after a meeting with the minister (Secretariat of International Relations).
The announcement was accompanied by a photo of Quaquá next to the minister in the Planalto Palace. The President himself.
According to participants in the articulation, the understanding included the promise that the Finance Secretariat – today occupied by Gleide Andrade – will remain under the management of the same political field. In this case, the reelection of the Gleide itself would not be ruled out. Lula should also be heard about the choice of the future treasurer.
For sewing, a group of five members was constituted: two representatives of each rival group and a mediator appointed by the president. For the composition, Gleide and the Government leader in the House, José Guimarães (CE), will speak on behalf of the current direction of the party.
The supporters of Edinho will be represented by the president of the PT of Sao Paulo, Kiko Celeguim, and Deputy Carlos Veras (PE).
Mediation will be in charge of. Overcoming the conflict in the national sphere, the group will dedicate itself to negotiations in their electoral households.
At night, in a meeting in Brasilia, which was attended by several ministers of Lula, members of CNB spoke about the unification of the current around the name of Edinho.
“The spirit of not cracking the PT predominated. If CNB cracked, it also cracked the PT,” said Guimarães.
Finance Minister Fernando Haddad said the plate will “praise” the 45 years of party history. “The PT will come out stronger and, next year, we will give work to this far right scrotum that is there, and we will see President Lula again climb the Planalto Palace ramp,” he said.
In his speech, Edinho thanked Quaquá for removing his candidacy and mentioned Gleide. “A contradiction between me and Gleide (…) has often been created, but through dialogue, we have seen that we have much more than unites us away. I want to recognize, Gleide, publicly, his effort and commitment to the construction of the CNB unit,” said the former mayor of Araraquara.
RACHAS USS
Several states have several candidates, including cracks within the CNB. Petistas have until next Monday (26) to make changes to registered plates. Conversations may include the plates for proportional vote. They are used to distribute positions below the presidency in the national, state and municipal party structure.
Sponsor of the National Agreement, Gleisi faces in Paraná the opposition of the former leader of the petista bench Zeca Dirceu. In the state, the minister supports state deputy Arilson Chiorato, whose candidacy would be adhered to the largest number of deputies.
In Minas Gerais, state deputy Leninha – managed by the Gleide group – faces a movement led by federal deputy Reginaldo Lopes, called by him a democratic CNB, who defends the name of also federal deputy Dandara Tonantzin.
In Santa Catarina, a CNB wing led by former Minister Ideli Salvatti thickens the candidacy of Councilwoman Carla Ayres against the plate supported by the president of Sebrae, Décio Lima.
Pernambuco at the moment has at least six candidates for the PT State Directorate – four of them in the group that supports Edinho nationally. They are: Federal Deputy Carlos Veras; the petista leader Sérgio Goiana; the mayor of Serra Talhada, Marcia Conrado; and the unionist Messias Melo. The last one is from a local current called PT militant, which supports CNB at the national level. On Thursday, 22, there will be a meeting between candidates to try to sew a deal.
The dispute for the command of the Ceará Directory had a pact between the political group of Minister Camilo Santana (Education) and Governor Elmano de Freitas with the leader of the government in the House, José Guimarães. They will support the reelection of Antonio Alves Filho.
Even with the agreement around the name to preside over the Ceará section of the PT, the two groups must have separated plates in the proportional election by the other positions in the party structure.
In Bahia, the largest state governed by the PT, the party leader Tássio Brito has the support of part of CNB and other petist currents. Another part of Lula’s group is with Jonas Paulo.
A different case is Rio Grande do Sul, where CNB has no strength to elect the state president.
The favorite is the state deputy Valdeci Oliveira, from the current socialism under construction. He has the endorsement of the former minister and supports Edinho Silva at the national level. Another strong candidate is also the state deputy Sofia Cavedon of socialist democracy, whose plate supports Rui Falcão nationally.
Names of other minority party trends, such as state deputy Stela Farias, former petista state president Júlio Quadros and the special advisor of the Planalto Institutional Relations Secretariat responsible for serving southern mayors, Thiago Braga, also competes.
There are still disputes in Sergipe and Espírito Santo.
