President Lula (PT) allies evaluate that the governor of, (Republicans), tries to deviate from the criticism generated by the tariff of projecting an image of possible negotiator with the.
They see, as a movement in this sense, and there is skepticism in the hypothesis that the governor can be accepted by Washington as an interlocutor.
Even if he was accredited, he would risk facing setbacks with the Bolsonarist supporters.
For the Planalto Palace, Tarcisio, who has used Trump’s motto, has been under heavy pressure since his initial reaction to the tariff. The governor had already shared days earlier, in which the American leader defended Bolsonaro and said he should be tried only by the Brazilian people, in a criticism of the judiciary.
On Wednesday (9), the day Trump confirmed the surcharge, associating the act to a supposed judicial persecution against Bolsonaro, Tarcisio sought to relate, how “honor dictatorship, defend censorship and assault the largest direct investor in Brazil”.
With the crisis in clearer proportions and Tarcisio adopted on Thursday (10) another tone. He began to speak of “dialogue” and “negotiation”. He kept the speech after meeting with Escobar when he said he needed to negotiate and “narratives will not solve the problem.”
Lula’s assistants saw at the meeting another attempt to placate criticism than an effort of serious intermediation.
The first reason would be that it does not have the same attributions as the federal government to engage in a commercial deal with another country, involving exchange of tariff reductions offers. In the words of a Lula minister, he has no pen to lead a negotiation.
The second, which Escobar is not even ambassador. It is an employee away from the circle of power that today controls the White House and, in this assessment, the Tarcisio movement would be innocuous from a practical point of view.
Trump’s allies have required the end of lawsuits against Bolsonaro and Big Tech regulatory actions, themes also outside the governor’s power.
Also according to Lula’s assistants, Tarcisio’s efforts to recalibrate his speech on the subject of tariffs for now have been poorly effective and deepened friction with the (Federal Supreme Court) and the Bolsonarist base.
One minister stated that Tarcisio tries to present himself as savior of the homeland, but without political credentials for the task and can implode bridges with sectors that today support him.
Tarcisio called the STF ministers and proposed that the court authorize Bolsonaro to travel to the US to meet Trump.
The argument was that the former president would have the ability to negotiate with the American a pacification with Brazil, pulling him the reduction of the fare.
Magistrates considered the idea totally out of purpose. Lula’s collaborators, in turn, classified as very serious the initiative to see in it a possibility of escape from the former president.
On another front, licensed federal deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro (-SP), who is in the US to lobby for sanctions against Moraes and the Lula administration, has linked any negotiations on tariffs to a “broad, general and unrestricted amnesty.”
The publication was interpreted as a response to the negotiation appeals made by Tarcisio.
“I am sorry, but you can’t ask President Trump-and no minimally decent international authority-to treat a dictatorship like a democracy. Either there is a wide, general and unrestricted amnesty to start or welcome to ‘Brazuela’,” Eduardo wrote.
The publication was also read as a sample of the crossroads in which Tarcisio is in, having to balance between pockets, the interests of the São Paulo business community and even the judiciary.
Former presenter Paulo Figueiredo, another pocketist who has articulated in the US sanctions against the Lula administration, said on Friday that Tarcisio “hinders without even knowing.”
“While the system hopes that it will emerge as the savior of the homeland by intermediating an agreement with the US, they will not even consider the one that is the only real solution: the wide, general and unrestricted amnesty.”
In the evaluation of a palace advisor, Tarcisio failed in his first national test and saw his contradictions exposed.
The government leader in the House, José Guimarães (PT-CE), says he tried to differentiate himself from pockets and exercise a protagonism, but it is too late. “Even in the dictatorship prevailed nationalism. Today, no. They are subservients,” he said.
