O PL (Liberal Party) leader) in the House, Deputy Cavalcante (RJ), said on Monday (30) that the former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL) It will not be pressured by anyone choosing a right name to replace it in the 2026 election race.
Bolsonaro is ineligible until 2030 by decision of the TSE (Superior Electoral Court).
“I think it’s a century right to make your pressure, and I don’t think so. Because those who know former President Bolsonaro know that he doesn’t press himself by any political agent. No one will press you to make a decision“Sostenes said during an interview with TV Cultura’s” Roda Viva “show.
Despite the condition of ineligibility imposed after condemnations of abuse of political power and misuse of the media, Bolsonaro says he will try. He can appeal from the case in STF (Federal Supreme Court).
In recent months, some names on the Brazilian right have been tested on vote intentions. Others have already spoken out as options for the Planalto Palace and as is the case of the governor of Minas Gerais, Romeu low (Novo).
Ally and former minister of the former government, the chief executive of São Paulo, Tarcísio de Freitas (Republicans), could be a viable option for 2026 – but for that, according to Sostenes, any candidate chosen would have to join the PL.
Exclusivity to PL and presidential pardon
Still in an interview with TV Cultura, the party leader states that one of the former president’s demands, if he really has to choose someone to replace him in next year’s election race, is affiliation with PL.
“What I am saying is that the candidacy, if the choice of President Bolsonaro of another name other than him, will have to come to the PL for this composition,” he continued Sostenes.
“Today is the largest party, the largest party with television time, with party fund. Because of these circumstances, it will have to come to the PL, it is the condition that he [Bolsonaro] Put, “he adds.
The presidential pardon was another point mentioned by the federal deputy when asked about a scenario in which Bolsonaro was convicted.
The measure is a kind of forgiveness of penalty – total or partial – granted exclusively by the President of the Republic. The idea defended by him is that, in this case, Bolsonaro is “forgiven” by some candidate on the right chosen by him.
In the case of President Bolsonaro, what I argue is another instrument, it is constitutional. Impact is constitutional, it is an attribution of the President of the Republic. And I’m sure, in case of his conviction, which I do not believe, this will happen in a victory of whatever the candidate on the right because this conviction of President Bolsonaro is absurd
