Considered the main political successor of (), but under clan attacks, (Republicans) will try to reconcile the former president’s defense with a discretion strategy during the trial that will define the future of his mentor.
The governor of, who has been the target of and the children of the former president, must remain in the Bandeirantes Palace, in internal agendas, on the days when the final phase of the (Supreme Court) process occurs about the coup plot.
Confirmed eventual conviction, he must make choir to gestures of solidarity to the ally and contest it, maintaining the ally’s innocence speech. But, for now, none of its political partners speaks of more acute actions, such as presence in other street protests against trial – the act already marked for the 7th on Paulista Avenue.
These lines are already being expressed by the governor. On August 21, the day following the request for indictment of Bolsonaro and one of his children, (PL-SP), for obstruction of the trial, Tarcisio stressed that his relationship with the former president “will be as always, a relationship of loyalty, friendship relationship, gratitude relationship.”
On Friday (29), at an event in Santo André, ABC, he said he had “absolute conviction of Bolsonaro’s innocence” and that the accusation of plotting a coup d’état did not make “the slightest meaning.” “I believe a lot and I have absolute conviction in innocence and, if there is justice, it will be innocent,” he said. In an interview the same day, he said the act as president.
Tarcísio made only a visit to Bolsonaro after Minister Alexandre de Moraes put him under house arrest on the 4th. Since then, he has intensified agendas with entrepreneurs from the financial and agricultural sectors, popular artists and the evangelical segment, exposing himself less veiled to presidential pre-candidacy.
However, governor and former president maintain constant contact through Diego Torres Dourado, brother-in-law of Bolsonaro and special advisor to the governor. According to Tarcisio’s advisors, the clan leader did not make any caveats over the governor’s footsteps towards the candidacy, which was interpreted as endorsement.
The messages released between Eduardo and his father, in the Federal Police report, showed that the deputy was already suspicious of the governor. With Tarcisio’s latest movements, this tension was accentuated.
Eduardo fights to keep Bolsonaro’s successor to him, though leaders of the centron and the right prefer Tarcisio. Like the Sheet He showed, he told the interlocutors that he could launch himself to the Plateau, even if his father indicates another name, understanding that he will do so under pressure from the political world.
On Friday, Eduardo suggested that he could leave his party to run for presidency for a minor caption.
Tarcisio, in turn, argues interlocutors who do not seek conflict with Eduardo and will continue without responding to the provocations. Among its allies, caution is interpreted as a calculation to avoid creating unpopularity among clan voters.
A member of the government team states that Tarcisio’s stance to accompany the trial is related to the open field in which it is at the moment. For nearby allies, although there is a movement towards the presidential candidacy, the governor has not decided whether this will indeed be his way or if he will try to reelection in Sao Paulo.
In addition, there is concern to prevent him from being defined as an opponent of (PT), which would expose him to the direct attacks of the petista and could generate ill will among governments.
The perception that it will face Tarcisio has already made Lula intensify criticism with the potential adversary. On Friday, in an interview with Radio Itatiaia, the president said the governor “is nothing” without Bolsonaro.
The day before, the federal government had turbocharged the disclosure of actions against organized crime to learn that in São Paulo, state secretaries participated in the presentation of and Faria Lima.
The caution stance with the judgment that will influence the future of the right will also go through other presidential governors. Interlocutors of Ratinho Jr. (PSD), from Paraná, and Ronaldo Caiado (União Brasil), from Goiás, claim that there should be no change in tone in the coming weeks, despite the scholarship demands for more proof of loyalty to the former president.
In the case of the two governors, public criticism has already been made to the process in the Supreme, in an understanding that there is exaggeration. But none are intended to confront the institution or the magistrates. Nor do they know they will attend the demonstrations of September 7.
The governor of Minas Gerais, Romeu Zema (Novo), has been the most critical of Moraes, rapporteur of proceedings against pockets in. He goes to the act on Paulista Avenue, according to advisors, and should follow in the same tune of questions to the process in the coming weeks.
Governors have been charged by more radical wings of bolsonarism by demonstrations of loyalty to the former president, who, in their understanding, is to attack Moraes and defend Bolsonaro’s candidacy-which is ineligible.
Children Carlos and Eduardo Bolsonaro have expressed this position more forcefully, intensifying criticism of the allies. The Rio councilman even called the right -wing governors of rats and opportunists.
They attribute the movement of the political world by successors, especially for Tarcisio, to the “system” and criticize what they see as an opportunism on the eve of the STF scammer’s trial, which can condemn Bolsonaro over 40 years in jail.
For parliamentarians and center and right leaders, the reaction is an attempt to keep the father’s electoral estate in the clan. In addition, they evaluate that it is a way to maintain their own electoral relevance, as they will be candidates next year.
The Senator (PL-RJ), in turn, has had a distinct posture of the brothers. He is today the leading spokesman for his father in the political world, responsible for the political articulations of the clan, and praises Tarcisio to interlocutors.
