Former senator and former governor of Paraná Roberto Requião and state deputy Requião Filho will join the 16th, after a turbulent period in the PT.
Former members, father and son agreed to join the PT in 2022, willing to create a regional stage for the then candidate and today President (PT). But the relationship shuddered after Lula’s victory at the polls, and the pair began to criticize measures adopted by the petista federal government.
“We entered the campaign to defeat Guedes Bolsonaro and economic liberalism to change things. Nothing has changed, it’s been a disaster,” said the former governor at X (former Twitter), a social network he usually uses to attack Lula 3.
Requião father was the first to leave the PT in early 2024, claiming to have been ignored by the party after the. He has always repeated, however, that he did not regret engagement in the pro-lula campaign against “the Bolsonarist tragedy.”
Still last year, Requião ran for the City Hall affiliated with a Nanico party, mobilizes him. He made only 1.8% of the valid votes and paraded after the defeat. The flirt with the PDT began after conversations with the former minister.
Requião Filho left the PT in April and soon confirmed to the local PDT that he would enter the acronym. This Thursday (3), he announced the formal ceremony of his and his father on the 16th at the party headquarters in Brasilia.
“It is a party that has history. Here in the south, as brizolism as a whole, it is a party of clear positions. And our idea would be, together with this team that is already there, rebuild this party and give it again the importance he has had in national politics,” said Requião Filho on his social network.
He is in the third term as a state deputy and presents his name as a possibility to the race to the Paraná government in 2026.
In Paraná, the PDT today has only one representative in the Legislative Assembly – State Representative Goura – and is critical to the state government, by Ratinho Junior (), next to the petista bench.
Nationally, the party was friction with Lula’s management after the resignation of Lupi from the Ministry of Labor in May. The party’s bench in the House announced breaking with the government at the time;
