The President (PT) arrives this Thursday (4) in for his seventh visit to in 2025, a sequence that already surpasses the total trips of the petista to the state in the first two years of his government.
The intensification of the president’s agenda happens amid the attempt to establish a competitive stage in the state for his reelection. Second largest electoral college in the country, Minas Gerais is known to be a kind of.
The construction of the PT in Minas is centered on support for the candidacy of the former president of () to the State Government.
He approached Lula during the transition from government and especially in the response of the authorities, while still occupying the presidency of the house.
In recent interviews and speeches, Lula has encouraged the ally’s candidacy, whom he usually quotes as “main political personality” of Minas.
“I’m sure we’re going to win the state of Minas Gerais with Pacheco, he knows that, he knows what I think. It’s just he will be willing to be a candidate. If he is, he will be the future governor of Minas Gerais”, to Radio Itatiaia last week.
The uncertainty about the arrangement of the former president of the Senate from launching his candidacy is one of the factors that prevent a more offensive articulation for the formation of the plate that would gather parties from the left and part of the Minas Gerais center.
Pacheco, however, has given indications that his resistance to the candidacy has reduced in recent weeks.
His allies in the state cite the speeches in the presidential agendas, times when he criticizes controversial phrases of the governor (new) and the “sealing” of politicians on social networks.
Interlocutors mention that they are directed to Pacheco’s possible main opponents in the Tiradentes Palace dispute: the (new) deputy governor, chosen by Zema for his succession, and the Senator (Republicans), who has strong presence and engagement in the networks.
Another fact that caught the attention was the senator’s note last Monday (1st) when he from a PSD wing with Simões.
A negotiation for the deputy governor’s affiliation of the party was publicly admitted by Zema and would be well received by the PSD bench in the Legislative Assembly, which is part of the state government base. The articulation, however, finds resistance from the party’s group of federal deputies.
In a statement, Pacheco said he has no intention of changing party and criticized the “unbridled attempt to anticipate the electoral calendar, as if the elections were more important than the problems of our society.”
Another member of the Minas Gerais PSD contrary to the approach of the party with Simões is the minister (mines and energy), responsible for Lula’s trip on Thursday to Belo Horizonte, his electoral domicile.
A fiery defender of the president in speeches, Silveira will launch the program in the city, which will offer gratuity in the kitchen gas canister to 15.5 million Brazilian families, benefiting about 50 million people, according to government calculations.
The minister is quoted as a pre-candidate for one of the two vacancies in the Senate next year and was available to coordinate the petista’s presidential campaign in Minas.
Thursday’s agenda can also serve to bring Lula closer to the mayor of the capital of Minas Gerais, (União Brasil), who took office with the death of, in March.
The PT’s idea is to repeat the president’s support of Fuad, then mayor of BH, in the 2022 elections.
Damião, however, is affiliated with the Union, and announces support for the amnesty of former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL).
In last week’s presidential entourage in the neighboring Contagem, Silveira directed Damião during the speech to say that Fuad would be once again next to Lula in 2026.
The minister said he was sure that the current mayor will “honor the commitment [de Fuad] And with conscience will support President Lula “. Damião, who was on stage, laughed and had one arms raised by Ricardo Faria (PSD), deputy mayor of Contagem.
