Do, former mayor Edinho Silva defends the launch of the candidacy of the Minister of Finance,, in 2026, in, either for the government or the Senate. Edinho says that the president needs a very “strong” stage in the state with a view to his reelection, stressing the adverb.
In Edinho’s assessment, “no picture can abstain from fulfilling party mission” in the face of the perspective of a hard clash in next year’s elections.
“I don’t know what Haddad has to compete for, but I will argue that he competes. I think the best paintings have to be in the 2026 electoral dispute,” he said.
Edinho Silva was mayor of Araraquara (SP), councilman, state deputy and minister of the Secretariat of Communication in the government of petista Dilma Rousseff. He was also a financial coordinator of Dilma’s campaign in 2014.
He classifies the PT as a mistake to have defined the government’s economic policy of “, during the management of its predecessor and today Minister of the Secretariat of Institutional Relations,. He states that there is no victorious government with the defeated Finance Minister.
“This was a mistake, it is a mistake and it is a mistake,” he said, when asked about it. “President Lula’s government will be strong, it will be victorious if the Minister of Finance is strong and victorious. And we have a lot of room to talk. So I prefer we treat the divergences internally,” said Edinho, although describing Gleisi as the greatest leader in PT history.
In responding to disputes within Lula’s team, nicknamed “Fire Friend”, Edinho preaches that all ministers, including centrão, defend the project led by the president. According to him, it is a mistake when personal interests overlap with the country’s agenda.
“When it’s fire, it’s not a friend, right? We have to pacify. President Lula’s government is not a joint of personal projects, it’s a project for Brazil. Ministries have to be subjected to this national project led by the president.”
Edinho states, however, that ministers cannot be held responsible for infidelity in benches in a legislative power scenario on budget execution, inherited from Michel Temer (MDB) and Jair Bolsonaro (PL) governments.
In his opinion, “coalition presidentialism ruined” and only Lula would be able to lead a concertation for his restoration in the country.
Asked about the proposal of the ruling leader in the Senate, (PT-BA), to hold a plebiscite on government system, Edinho says he cannot trivialize this consultation instrument and recommends a debate between national leaders. But it admits: “If we cannot overcome this impasse we are living, perhaps the best way out is the organization of a plebiscite and society to say whether it wants a presidential or parliamentary country.”
Declaring herself a defender of the dialogue as an instrument of building policy, Edinho defended, however, the videos that the PT aired with criticism of the overthrow of the increase in IOF (Tax on Financial Operations) tax rates, decreed by the government to make income tax exemption possible.
According to the party leader, Congress has missed the president’s strength and leadership capacity. And a defeat of that size would require a reaction. The future president of the PT points out that “PT’s largest assets is the President Lula government” and will be protected. “And I, in the presidency of the PT, is not a millimeter chance of this changing. The government President Lula will be defended and protected every time he is attacked,” he said.
The former mayor points out as necessary a discussion about the end of privileges in Brazil. According to him, what the government and the PT did was to debate with society the conception of tax justice. By the time the Trump government announces the adoption of tax sanctions against Brazil, Edinho qualifies the measure as one of the greatest diplomatic violence that Brazil has already suffered.
Therefore, he thinks that the governor of São Paulo, (Republicans), made a mistake not to criticize the decision initially, as it should have put the interests of São Paulo and Brazil in the foreground.
According to him, “is today the largest builder of the Third World War”, which will be economical, and the democratic world has to organize to stop it.
Regarding the mission he will take over in August, Edinho states that the PT’s biggest challenge is to be strong for the post laula, as well as the party reunification after the dispute.
“I will not be president of a part of the PT. I will work to unify the PT. This will be my saga daily. I believe the PT will only be strong if it is unified.”
Despite a defeat imposed on the left of the party in his election, Edinho rejects the idea that a PT is qualified as an acronym to the center of the political spectrum. “It’s impossible for the PT to be a center party,” he rejects.
