The commitment that the governor (Republicans) used as a justification for the president (PT), this Thursday (26), was the inauguration of a square in Lagoinha, a city of about 5,000 inhabitants to 201 km from the state capital.
The square is a lookout with a wooden deck of about 150 square meters, next to the gym of the municipality. Named Geraldo Antônio de Souza, it cost R $ 300 thousand, according to the City Hall, of which R $ 230 thousand came from the government – 0.0015% of investments made by the state last year.
According to the mayor of Lagoinha, Zeca Correa (), the event was hastily organized. According to the Sheethe received a poll about the possibility of receiving Tarcisio on Monday (23), but the confirmation that the agenda was maintained was only made the day before (25).
Zeca stated that the work had been done at the end of last year. According to the government, however, a survey made in March this year indicated that the space needed adjustments, which were only completed last week.
Correa spent the beginning of the week inviting mayors of neighboring cities to the event and determined that the children of the city’s municipal school were present in the political act, in order to fill the city’s municipal gymnasium at the time of the Tarcísio speech.
The mayor is from the political group of the president of Alesp (Legislative Assembly of São Paulo), André do Prado (PL), one of the main political supporters of Tarcisio, and the national president of the PL ,.
In March, he had his term revoked by the Electoral Court, accused of promoting himself with public resources at the city’s agricultural fair, Expolag, but appealed and remains in office.
Tarcísio had launched a program for small works in interior cities, named São Paulo neighborhoods – sustainable cities in November last year. Lagoinha Mirante was built through an agreement signed from this program.
Upon arriving at the event, Tarcisio planted two tree seedlings in front of the new lookout, in an action to highlight the sustainable character of the program. According to the mayor, the seedlings were bought by the city.
The gym that housed the stage where the governor spoke had his sports court filled with plastic chairs. Tarcísio, the approximately 20 mayors invited to the act and some advisors stayed on stage. In the first two rows of plastic, advisers of the mayors and other guests and, in the next 14 rows, the children.
Before the event began, the governor watched a dance presentation, a choir and the reading of a poem by one of the students.
The coral that performed from the Alceu Coelho Municipal School had originally 30 children and had rehearsed a musical piece for the Environment Day (June 5), but only eight performed Tarcisio – as the call to display the part to the governor was made on Wednesday, only the families of eight of the students, in the morning, managed to get organized to be present.
Tarcísio focused his speech to thank the 20 mayors who were present and promised to meet the demands of local managers, especially road works.
At the event, Tarcisio also announced an authorization to release subsidies for the construction of 1,673 housing units.
Although a series of communication vehicles in the region were present at the event, he chose to leave the gym’s back door. He said Sheet that would not answer questions, and one of the military police who make their security used the body to prevent the report from approaching.
The state government states that the inauguration of the square was made because the space was completed.
“Since last week, the work was able to be delivered, but still without tree seedlings planted today, as provided for in the project. With the arrival of the seedlings, the City and the State were able to mark the event without pending,” said the State Secretariat for Urban Development and Housing.
Tarcisio management also added that it was not responsible for mobilizing children.
Among the promises of the program to the region is the transformation of a bus station, which is on the same terrain of the Sports Center and the new square, in a private restaurant, through a partnership with the government, which will also have financial support from the São Paulo government – the project values were not released.
The bus station is also a work of the State Government, completed in 2013, but it was never used.
The teams of Lula and Tarcisio had been negotiating a joint public agenda to deal with the donation of housing to inhabitants of Favela do Moinho, in the center of the capital. The families of the site, whose land is federal, are being removed by the São Paulo government.
Tarcisio and Lula have already had joint agendas in the past. The mutual demonstrations of sympathy, especially at an event in the port of Santos, in February last year, led Bolsonarists to criticize the Paulista Governor.
With (PL) ineligible, Tarcisio is appointed by allies as the most viable name of the group to compete against Lula to the Presidency next year – he denies that he works for this nomination, but seeks to avoid gestures that displease the Bolsonarist electorate.
The Event at the Mill was scheduled for the Federal Government team to take place in the morning. Tarcisio, however, said he had marked housing deliveries in São Bernardo do Campo, Lula’s political cradle at the same time.
The petista team then changed the schedule of the agenda for the afternoon. The team of the pocketist, in turn, said that Tarcisio had a commitment in Lagoinha.
In the morning, in São Bernardo, Tarcisio said the important thing was that both were working. “Our goal, honestly, is not having an event,” he said.
After the publication of this text, the government sent a note that states that the agenda in Lagoinha was “officially classified as an event of the State Government on Tuesday (24), before any final definition of the time of the Federal Government event.”
“Initially scheduled for 10am, the mill event had its time changed later to 14h. Governor Tarcísio de Freitas already had confirmed public commitments in São Bernardo do Campo to the morning and early afternoon, according to the agenda defined the previous week, without the possibility of change,” says the text.
According to the note, the event in São Bernardo do Campo included “Technical Visit to Prainha do Riacho Grande, accompanied by mayors, councilors, deputies and the press” and the “technical presentation of the Prainha Revitalization Project, held at the Riacho Grande Subprefecture”.
The text continues that, still in São Bernardo, Tarcísio visited road works before attending a housing delivery event. “The governor’s speech, who marked the end of the event, began around 1:40 pm” and then he attended journalists.
