The governor of Minas Gerais, (Novo), will launch his pre-candidacy for the Presidency of the Republic, on Saturday (16), taking advantage of the uncertainty on the right over the candidacies for 2026 and betting on the image of Outsider, even in his second elective term.
The launch will be during the New National Convention in a Hotel in the South Zone and will bring together federal and state deputies and mayors of the acronym. Event organizers evaluate that the Minas Gerais governor is the only right -wing name that depends only on himself to clinging as presidential.
“We are able to launch the pre-candidacy now because we are from a cohesive and aligned party, with a clear purpose for the country and whose main challenge is to make Zema known for the rest of Brazil,” he told the Sheet The national president of the new, Eduardo Ribeiro.
In the assessment of an ally, the pre-candidacy leaves Zema at the front of possible opponents, such as the governors (Republicans-SP), Ronaldo Caiado (União Brasil-GO) and Ratinho Jr. (PSD-PR), amid uncertainty about who will be the candidates of the political field next year.
Political godson of the former president ()-which is the greatest directo-artist, but is ineligible and serving house arrest-Tarcisio is seen by several leaders as the natural heir to face President Lula (PT) next year. Publicly, he denies that he will try something other than reelection in the state, but interlocutors have already admitted that he would accept to run for Bolsonaro to ask.
Both Caiado and Ratinho Jr. depend not only on the definition of Tarcisio, who would undermine his eventual candidacies if they came to the presidency, but also on the endorsement of their respective parties, which in turn depend on the construction of plates with other acronyms.
Already the new, who has always launched purebred plates, has no concern to compose with any subtitles and claims that, currently, will only open Zema to the president if Bolsonaro is able to reverse his situation and compete for next year’s elections.
The party also takes advantage of a scenario in which the former president would have endorsed that the more right candidates he has in the first round in 2026, the better. He would have said this to Zema, according to the governor himself, at a meeting in Brasilia last month, when the miner informed him that he would launch his pre-candidacy later this year.
Outsider’s speech
A native of Araxá, in the Triangulo Mineiro, Zema got the position of governor in his first election in 2018, the same year she joined the new. The retailer’s entrepreneur’s campaign gained prominence with the antipetista tonic and anti -corruption, something he should explore at this Saturday’s event.
Reelected in the first round in 2022, Zema intends to use as a showcase a fiscal austerity plan to attack the Lula administration’s economic policies, as well as the Supersalaries and Hanging in the Government. The governor claims to have since he assumed and recently promotes achievements of his management.
Zema will also defend the need to equate criminal factions to terrorism, something that has publicly defended Sheet.
This Thursday (15), and compared them to parked cars in forbidden places that must be squealed.
“If someone leaves the car parked in a forbidden place, the car is not squealed? Now there will be someone at the door of a taxpayer who pays a job, generating jobs, doing dirt, disturbing, threatening the customer. No one can do anything,” he told BBC News Brazil.
Even in his second term as governor, the miner must bet on the image of Outsider in his attempt to make a candidate for the Plateau. This Saturday, it is expected to make a 15 -minute presentation -style presentation of short lectures – to tell your story and the reasons that led you to politics.
According to organizers, the idea is to let the governor be free to circulate on stage, without the presence of a pulpit, reinforcing the image that he is not a politician by nature. The script foresees an account of how he, even coming from humble origins, became a successful entrepreneur. The preparation of the speech was made by marketer Renato Pereira ,.
This Saturday, the party will also bet on the highlight of its main national names. Senator Eduardo Girão (SE), federal deputies Adriana Ventura (SP), Gilson Marques (SC), Luiz Lima (RJ), Marcel Van Hattem (RS) and Ricardo Salles (SP) and former Procurator Deltan Dallagnol.
In February last year, the new changed its statute to authorize the use of public money in campaigns. Therefore, for 2026, the party plans to use everything that has been accumulated with the resources of party and electoral funds at once.
