It officially, on Thursday (6), in a convention held in Brasilia, the creation of a party federation with the. The union between the two subtitles will be presented to the Superior Electoral Court () until July, with expectation of approval by September or October. PSDB state president in São Paulo, Paulo Serra, attended the event and defended the merger as a political alternative to the current scenario. “This union of center parties is born to offer Brazil a balanced management option, far from extremism, which impoverishes the debate and does not meet the needs of the population,” he said.
With the merger, PSDB and we can add 28 federal deputies and seven senators, forming the eighth largest bench of the House of Representatives and the fifth in the Senate. During the convention, the PSDB affiliates approved by large majority the change in the acronym status, necessary to make the federation viable: there were 201 votes favorable, two contrary and two abstentions. Now parties must elaborate together a new status and a unified political program.
According to Paulo Serra, the Federation strengthens the PSDB for the next elections. “This movement makes the party more competitive and prepares us with good paintings for 2026,” he said.
The federation between the two parties is seen as an attempt for political repositioning, especially from the PSDB, which faces its worst crisis since the foundation. In the 2022 elections, the party elected only 13 federal deputies and no senator – the worst performance in the history of the acronym. Currently, the PSDB has only three senators and lost two of the three governors elected in 2022: Raquel Lyra (PE) and Eduardo Leite (RS) migrated to the PSD. The only remaining governor, Eduardo Riedel (MS), has been briefly at the convention and still evaluates whether he will continue in the caption.
Despite the casualties, toucan leaders showed optimism with the new phase. Federal Deputy Aécio Neves (PSDB-MG), for example, argued that the acronym keep his name in the merger process: “I want to keep the name PSDB still alive,” he said. Internally, the model was baptized as “incorporation with melting characteristics”, and the provisional name of the new subtitle should be “PSDB+Somos”.
With the Union, PSDB and we can now add up to 28 federal deputies and seven senators, which makes the new federation the eighth largest bench of the House and Quinta do Senate. The expectation, according to Aécio, is ambitious: he projects the election of up to 50 federal deputies in 2026 and the launch of a presidential candidate. In addition, the party is negotiating with 14 deputies and two senators who can migrate to the new subtitle.
The most recent study commissioned by Somos points out that the new federation can count on a Special Fund for Campaign Financing (FEFC) of about $ 380 million, which would position it as the seventh largest in the country, ahead of Republicans. The party fund should reach $ 90 million, surpassing PSD, Republicans and MDB. PSDB national president Marconi Perillo also spoke about the new identity of the party. According to him, the caption will undergo a renewal process, with a new program, symbol and speech until October.
The idea is to introduce the PSDB as a “center of center party”. The phrase “radical in what matters” stamped caps distributed during the event, referring to the attempt to reposition itself in the political spectrum and attract the farm away from the center in recent years, marked by the polarization between the current president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (PT), and his predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro (PL).
The federation between the two parties is seen as an attempt for political repositioning, especially from the PSDB, which faces its worst crisis since the foundation. In the 2022 elections, the party elected only 13 federal deputies and no senator – the worst performance in the history of the acronym. Currently, the PSDB has only three senators and lost two of the three governors elected in 2022: Raquel Lyra (PE) and Eduardo Leite (RS) migrated to the PSD. The only remaining governor, Eduardo Riedel (MS), has been briefly at the convention and still evaluates whether he will continue in the caption.
