While the governor (Republicans) devoted himself to articulations in Brasilia by Amnesty to Jair Bolsonaro (PL), two of his main allies in last week a dispute for space in the São Paulo public machine, with electoral reflexes.
President of the Government Secretary, resigned from his folder last week an ally of the president of Alesp (Legislative Assembly of São Paulo), André do Prado (PL), despite a request made directly by André to the governor so that the measure was not taken.
The fired is Rogério Rossini de Lima, 44, known in the Ribeira Valley as Rogério Pio. He was regional director of the Undersecretary of Covenants with the municipalities and non -governmental entities of the Kassab portfolio and had been in government since 2019.
Its function was to articulate the release of parliamentary amendments to municipalities and agreements in the region. Upon learning that Kassab had held the decision, André appointed him a parliamentary assistant on his team-the appointment was published on Monday (15).
Rogério Pio said he was caught by surprise for the resignation. “It was not just André who asked me to stay,” Sheet. Among those who intercede is also Renato Bolsonaro, brother of the former president. “But Kassab decided to fire anyway.”
The decision generated negative reaction between mayors of the region and members of the Tarcisio base at Alesp. The episode takes place at a moment of Kassab’s fragility with governor’s bolsonist allies.
While Tarcisio was in Brasilia defending amnesty to the convicts for the attempted coup – after one of the Supreme Court (Supreme Court), which attracted him criticism – the House to vote as they preferred.
According to reports from a series of allies, Kassab is interested in competing in the São Paulo government. His plan would be to ensure appointed vice case Tarcisio sought reelection.
With the governor’s presidential candidacy gaining strength among leaders of other subtitles, given the possibility that Bolsonaro, convicted, support him as a substitute, Kassab has been pressured to review the plan.
André, in turn, is seen by state deputies and even Tarcisio assistants at the Bandeirantes Palace as one of the best-placed names to run for the government in 2026. In addition to being in the PL, Bolsonaro’s party and having Valdemar Costa Neto as a political godfather, it maintains a good relationship with center-right mayors and leaders.
The president of Alesp confirmed Sheet To have asked the governor to have his ally to remain in office, but denied direct friction with Kassab.
“Pio was not my indication, but always helped. He is an excellent professional, with a lot of technical knowledge, so much that I admitted him in my office as soon as I learned of the dismissal,” he said.
Kassab, in turn, did not comment on the conflict. “This is a change of routine. Faced with administrative readjustment made in the secretariats, some adjustments were made in the teams of the Secretariat of Government and Institutional Relations,” he said, through his advisory.
Despite speculation about his candidacy for the presidency, Tarcisio denied on Wednesday (17), in Araçatuba (interior of São Paulo), which intends to run for Planalto. “I intend to run for reelection,” he said.
The report sought the governor to deal with friction among his allies, but he did not respond.
