Potential Planalto candidates in 2026, governors of São Paulo and Goiás also advocate changes in environmental licensing
The governors (Republicans-SP) and (União-GO) yesterday criticized the action of landless movements during Gaff (Global Agribusiness Festival), an event that brought together agribusiness entrepreneurs on Thursday (5.jun.2025) at Allianz Parque, in São Paulo.
The two potential candidates for the Planalto Palace in 2026 were accompanied by 2 other governors linked to the sector: (PSDB), from Mato Grosso do Sul, and (PP), from Roraima.
During his speech, Tarcisio said that in São Paulo “There is no land invasion, no Red April, no red carnival, it only has blue, green and yellow.” The phrase – referential to landless movements mobilization – was a repetition of what the Secretary of Public Security of Sao Paulo had said, Guilherme Derrite, during April 2025.
Caiado stated that anyone who wants to make landless movement in the state of Goiás goes to the “Police Station answer for invasion“. He adopted A forceful tone in his criticism of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Said the government of the petista is “Without planning” and that “It has spending and populist spending”in addition to “Not being sympathetic to agriculture”.
The governors, supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL), participated in a panel mediated by Rafael Furlanetti, institutional managing partner at XP Investimentos. At the beginning of the meeting, everyone came together to cut a track that opened the event.
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Environmental guidelines
In support of the agro, Tarcisio and Caiado sector, they advocated changes in environmental licensing, so that the rules are more flexible. The theme that advances in the National Congress. According to the governor, in Brazil, there is “Low degrading potential and more resilient environmental enterprises”.
Already Caiado defended the exploitation of oil on the Brazilian equatorial margin, on the north coast, between Amapá and Rio Grande do Norte. Lula government members, including the president himself, are in favor of this exploitation. The plan, however, undergoes resistance from environmentalists.
