Former President Michel Temer (MDB) said in an interview with UOL This Thursday, 21, that President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (PT) “has prestige and popularity”, but that the scenario for the 2026 elections is uncertain. He added that former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) electorate “will have weight” in the candidacy he will support.
“There is no doubt that he (Lula) has prestige and popularity, as he has popularity also Bolsonaro, we will not forget that,” he said, assessing that, ineligible, the former president may influence the outcome of the election by declaring his support. “It is very difficult at this time to say what is the solution to 2026,” he said.
Temer returned to preach the pacification of the country, listing the ills of polarization. “I hear a lot of people and find that there is a search for a moderate candidacy that escapes this radicalization, which launched Brazilians against Brazilians, institutions against institutions and corporations against corporations,” he said.
He suggested that one of the governors quoted to leave presidential candidates in 2026 may be this candidacy, claiming that it is a “formidable crop”, and added them advised to unite around a government project.
“When the fifth governor spoke to me I said, ‘Look, I see that you have the same ideas. The ideal of ideals is that you could first launch a project for the country, and then you see who of you can represent this project.” It’s not easy, but it would be ideal, “he said.
Governors regarded as presidential presidential are Tarcisio de Freitas (Republicans), from São Paulo; Junior Ratinho (PSD), from Paraná; Eduardo Leite (PSD), from Rio Grande do Sul; Romeu Zema (Novo), from Minas Gerais; and Ronaldo Caiado (Union), from Goiás. The last two have officially launched their pre-candidatures to the Planalto Palace.
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The former president commented on other matters, such as the clash with the United States Government in the face of tariff and the application of the Magnitsky Law to sanction Minister Alexandre de Moraes of the Supreme Court (STF), which Temer nominated for the court during his term.
For him, which refers to Moraes as “a great constitutionalist”, it is a “brutal and unprecedented exaggeration.” “This law is actually aimed at catching corrupters, genocidal, people who attack human rights in a very violent way,” he said.
