The one released on Thursday (21), which pointed to (PSD) in the lead of the dispute by the government of in 2026, with 35% of voting intention.
The result shows the front taken by the mayor, at a time of tensions between the president of Alerj (Legislative Assembly of Rio de Janeiro), Rodrigo Bacellar (União Brasil), and the governor () who paralyzed the articulation of the right -wing Fluminense. Bacellar appears as second in the survey, with 9% voting intention.
Paes has made meetings with representatives of center parties to receive and propose names for the position of vice. In parallel, he made visits to the interior, in a meeting with mayors.
Already Bacellar entered the collision route with Castro, his ally, after the then Secretary of Transport Washington Reis (MDB). Bacellar took over as governor acting for a week in July, during a trip from Castro. Reis appears in the QUAEST survey as a possible competitor in the dispute, with 5% voting intention.
Bacellar tried to bind to Jair Bolsonaro (PL), but is seen with suspicion about the former president, according to members of the government’s core. Part assesses that the deputy’s belligerent profile causes discomfort. Last month, it was Castro who approached Senator Flávio Bolsonaro (PL-RJ), with invitations for agendas in Rio and speech at the demonstration in Copacabana.
In the episode of the resignation of Reis, Bacellar was criticized by names linked to pockets, such as Deputy Sostenes Cavalcante (PL-RJ) and Senators Carlos Portinho (PL-RJ) and Flávio Bolsonaro. Flavio that Kings was renamed, but was not attended.
A and governors pre-candidates for the Presidency of the Republic is also, according to allies of the governor, another factor that made joints from the right to 2026.
The relationship between Castro and Bacellar has cooled and the two have changed public indirects. The most recent happened on Thursday (21), after the deputy provoked in the plenary of Alerj to the secretary of the Military Police, Marcelo Menezes.
“Who does anything against you [Menezes]it is against me that is doing. You can make an ugly face, which we make an uglier face, “said Castro in Agenda, this Thursday (21).
Last week, Castro said he would go by the PL President Valdemar da Costa Neto to prohibit support for party candidates. The governor has repeated in interviews that the discussion about the 2026 election was anticipated.
“It’s too early. Next year we will make this discussion. On the first day after the election, Mayor Eduardo Paes put himself as a candidate and anticipated a discussion. Our party [PL] decided to decide this next year. Our front is very wide, “said Castro on Friday (22).
Paes made recent meetings with state presidents of Somos, Citizenship, MDB and PP. Until the confirmation of the Union-Progresso Federation this week, the approach with Federal Deputy Dr. Luizinho (PP-RJ) was the priority.
Taking advantage of municipal parties, Paes also traveled cities in the metropolitan region and in the interior of the state. The journey aims to dilute the, which won 22 of the 92 municipalities of Rio de Janeiro.
Visits to Duque de Caxias, in Baixada, and Campos dos Goytacazes bothered Castro and Bacellar.
In Campos, Paes has tried to attract rivals from Bacellar, who has a political cradle in the municipality. Campos Mayor Wladimir Garotinho (PP) is on the list of those who have already been considered to occupy the vacancy of vice in 2026.
In Caxias, Paes was with Washington Reis while this was a secretary of transport, an episode evaluated as.
Despite the already articulating candidacy, the former secretary is ineligible for being convicted in 2016 in the environmental crime.
In June, the minister signed an order in which he claims that Reis’s defense is plausible to reverse ineligibility.
Also appearing in the survey released this week the councilwoman Monica Benício (PSOL), with 4%, and the right -wing influencer Italo Marsili (without party), with 2%. Whites and nulls reach 30%, and 15% say they do not know who they would vote for.