Commentator José Eduardo Cardozo and the businessman and former federal deputy Alexis Fonteyne discussed, this Friday (29), in The Great Debate (Monday to Friday, at 11 pm), if former President Jair Bolsonaro will allow the governor of Sao Paulo, Tarcísio de Freitas, to dispute the 2026 elections with President Lula.
Behind the scenes, which has adopted a national speech. The consideration is that he should have started this movement only in 2026. Now, it would be time to just defend the former president.
Cardozo argues that there is evidence that the choice of Bolsonaro’s replacement will be turbulent.
“Who will win this fight I do not know, but there is an old rule that says ‘dead king, king put’. Faced with the impossibility of Jair Bolsonaro competing the elections, they began to see fights, disputes, curses, the Bolsonaro clan reacting, cursing these governors, but the truth is that this will outline next year,” he said.
“Perhaps even the governors themselves will not have unity to choose who will be the candidate who will try to take this estate of Jair Bolsonaro. The result, therefore, is that there is a tendency of the far right to enter this process, which obviously does not matter to those who defend this thesis,” he continued.
Fonteyne estimates that it is not yet possible to say that Bolsonaro will not compete in the elections.
“There is a trial of Jair Bolsonaro that will happen in the coming weeks. He is ineligible for nonsense, a crime that has not existed, a conversation between ambassadors, in a process where the phrase ‘mission given is said is mission accomplished’. Now, I think it has resources for all this, so Jair Bolsonaro is not yet out of the match completely,” he said.
“While Jair Bolsonaro still has possibilities, candidates who are not directly linked to Jair Bolsonaro, in the most specific case I think Tarcisio have to wait, have to wait for things to define themselves,” he concluded.
