With four ministries in (), the Federation between and was approved in convention on Tuesday (19) in Brasilia with opposition speech, applause to the former president () and collection of a part of the leaders to be delivered the positions in petista management.
The event featured ten governors, including Tarcísio de Freitas (), from São Paulo, who is the favorite among the federation leaders to replace Bolsonaro at the polls. The former minister, today, said he studied a affiliation and called for union of the “center-left and center-right”.
The longest and most applauded speech, however, was from the governor of Goiás, (union). He stated that a party with this muscles “cannot be shy,” he must present a project to the country and remove his affiliates from the government.
“We can no longer be interviewed and people ask: Do you have ministers at the government base? Are you from the base or opposition?” Said Caiado, who accused “stealing the retirees” and “surrendering the country to drug trafficking.” “The party has to have a side. It has to have a clear position,” he said.
Caiado launched a presidential candidate, but finds no support among the main leaders of the two acronyms. He argued at the event that each party launches his candidate to run against Lula and that the union of the right will take place only in the second round. Unifying applications, he said, will only help the petista.
PP President Senator (PI) countered the strategy when speaking. “We have big names, but maybe it’s not time to be our heads,” he said. “We will not be the arms, condemned to be at the extreme or another. The progressive union was born to be the backbone.”
Caiado’s speech in favor of a break was applauded by almost all politicians on stage, except for ministers Celso Sabino (Tourism) and André Fufuca (sports) and Paraíba vice governor, Lucas Ribeiro (PP), who wants to be a candidate with Lula’s support. They were not invited to speak.
The Ministers of Communications, Frederico Siqueira Filho, and National Development and Integration, Waldez Góes, did not participate in the act. They are not affiliated with União Brasil, but are nominated by the President of, (Union-AP), with the support of the party senators’ bench.
Another who charged the departure of the government affiliates was the executive secretary of União Brasil, who is a pre-candidate for the government of Bahia on a plate against the PT. The alliance between the two parties, he said, “it imposes on us a position.” “If we want our side to be the side of the Brazilian people, we have to be aware that our side is the side against the PT, the side against the government that is there,” he said.
Despite the defense of the landing, Ciro Nogueira and the president of União Brasil, Antonio Rueda, avoided the theme on stage and followed only with the criticism of Lula.
After the event, in a press interview, both said the ban for affiliates to continue in the petista government will occur “as soon as possible,” but without defining a date, and defended dialogue with the ministers to convince them to leave their own, without needing an expulsion.
Favorite of the federation summit to assume the presidential candidacy, Tarcísio de Freitas stated that the alliance between PP and União Brasil is a “very expected step” of the maturation of the Brazilian political system.
“I’m sure Brazil was waiting a lot this step, waiting with hope. Hope of having another strength to discuss relevant topics, [como] Political reform, the aging of the population, the financing of the Unified Health System, the process of escalating the fiscal crisis, “he said.
Ciro Gomes quoted numbers about the country’s economy and stated that conversations with his foundations on a affiliation with one of the federation parties. The goal would be to dispute the government of Ceará against the PT group and his brother, Senator Cid Gomes (PSB).
“Make this gesture, this initiative, an act of universal gravitation. That is, call everything the Brazilian can offer, from the center-left to the right-right, so we take Brazil from this disaster,” said the former presidential.
Alcolumbre, which is from the ruling wing of União Brasil, made the first speech of the event and left, but preached a conciliation against the extremes and stated that the federation is not born as government or opposition. “We can’t take the division of society anymore,” he said. “We have a lot of problems, and we have to understand that policy is made to solve problems and not to create problems.”
The event even had applause to Bolsonaro, who is under house arrest and did not participate. The governor of Santa Catarina, Jorginho Mello (PL), asked the former president and was attended. “Santa Catarina is a state that goes well because the PT never ruled the state of Santa Catarina,” he said.
PL President Valdemar da Costa Neto was the only leader of another party at the event, but avoided the stage and declined to give a press interview. No PT representative participated in the act.
Weight in the political scenario
The federation will have to last four years and go through two (2026, national, and 2028, municipal), with the two parties acting together in all states and municipalities.
On the other hand, the votes for the legislative assemblies will be added, which increases the chances that they make higher benches in the legislature.
In addition, the federation will have the largest portion of party and electoral funds and the longest time of electoral propaganda on TV and radio, which made it one of the main actors of the state elections.
This Tuesday, the governor of Mato Grosso do Sul, Eduardo Riedel, and joined the PP. He will be the third governor of the acronym, who already commands the governments of Roraima and Acre. União Brasil heads the executive of Goiás, Mato Grosso, Rondônia and Amazonas.
Senator Margareth Buzetti (MT), scheduled for Thursday (21), will also give the largest bench in the Senate. There will be 15 federation senators, against 14 PL and 13 of the PSD (acronym to which Margareth was affiliated).
In the House, the group will be by far the largest bench, with 109 federal deputies, right in front of PL (88) and the PT/PV/PCdoB Federation (80).
