With and focused on the presidential and the goal of expanding their respective countertops in the center parties gain muscles in the states and move to obtain land in the dispute for state governments.
With a year to go before the elections, scheduled for October 4, 2026, parties such as, and are moving to have a record number of candidates for governor.
The scenario is the result of strengthening these subtitles, which increased their countertops, consequently.
The Progressive Union is moving to have candidates to governments of up to 16 states. Together, the two parties must have a robust propaganda time and about $ 1 billion from the electoral fund.
“The Federation creates a good starting structure that enables a candidacy for governor. The next step is to seek the support of other parties,” says, vice president of União Brasil and pre-candidate for the government of Bahia.
The two subtitles announced last month the government’s landing (PT), but including two ministries and states – the Minister of Tourism ,.
Now articulate candidacies in the states while trying to get a national project that unifies the right.
The PP, which in 2022 disputed the governments of five states and won in Acre and Roraima, now has pre-candidates in ten federation units.
Among the new bets are former toucan Eduardo Riedel, governor of Mato Grosso do Sul, as well as three deputy governors who will definitely assume in April 2026 with the resignation of holders to run for Senate: Celina Leão (DF), Lucas Ribeiro (PB) and Mailza Assis (AC).
In, the party’s bet is the Secretary of Public Security, a candidate for the Senate who can run for the Government if (Republicans) is a candidate for president.
União Brasil has pre-candidates in eight states, including large electoral colleges such as Bahia and Rio de Janeiro. But faces internal clashes with the PP in Acre, Paraíba and Paraná – this last, the senator tries to make his candidacy for the government, but faces resistance.
Republicans is another acronym that should have a leap in the number of governor candidates. Originally linked to the Universal Church, the caption has sought to expand its foundations in the states.
In 2022, the party played only three states and won in Sao Paulo with Tarcísio de Freitas and Tocantins with Wanderlei Barbosa. Now you can have a candidacy in up to nine states.
Among them are Senator Cleitinho (Minas Gerais), Deputy Governor Otaviano Pivetta (Mato Grosso) and the mayor of Vitória, Lorenzo Pazolini (Espírito Santo). The caption also negotiates the affiliation of potential candidates such as Alan Rick, Acre, and Fernando Máximo, in Rondônia.
The PL of faces a more hazy scenario in the states. The party disputes reelection in Santa Catarina, with, and walks to launch Deputy Luciano Zucco, in Rio Grande do Sul, and businesswoman Maria do Carmo Seffair, in Amazonas.
There are pre-candidates in three other locations: Mato Grosso, Goiás and Rio Grande do Norte. In Minas Gerais, federal deputy Nikolas Ferreira evaluates competing.
While Centrão tries to gain ground, traditional center parties such as and act to maintain the protagonism.
The MDB, which has three governors, will launch applications in eight states. “Let’s go with a foot strategy to show that the MDB has a differential because it is a delivery party, which has management,” says federal deputy Baleia Rossi (SP), national president of the party.
The party will bet on experienced names, including the Minister of Transport, (Alagoas), and four deputy governors who are expected to take office next year: Gabriel Souza (Rio Grande do Sul), Hana Grasan (Pará), Daniel Vilela (Goiás) and Ricardo Ferraço (Espírito Santo).
The PSD, which reached five governors with the affiliations of (Pernambuco), (Rio Grande do Sul) and Laurez Moreira (Tocantins), has pre-candidature in at least ten states.
This week, the party agreed to affiliate the deputy governor of Minas Gerais, who will leave the movement that undermines a possible candidacy of the senator. Another bet of the caption is the mayor in Rio de Janeiro.
In the left field, the PT will compete in reelection in Bahia, Ceará and Piauí and launched the Secretary of Finance, Cadu Xavier, as a pre-candidate for the succession of Fatima Bezerra in Rio Grande do Norte.
The caption also aims at a competitive candidacy in Rio Grande do Sul, with Edegar Pretto, and evaluates to release names in six other states.
The priority will be prioritized by João Campos, in Pernambuco, but evaluates to enter the dispute in São Paulo, with the minister, and in the Federal District, with Ricardo Capelli.
and continue on a decline route. The toucans, who lost the three governors elected in 2022, will have as its main asset a possible candidacy of, quoted to join the party in Ceará. The caption should also compete in Goiás and Rondônia.
The PDT, which launched ten candidates in 2022 on the wake of Ciro Gomes’ presidential campaign, should have candidates in three states. The main bet is Juliana Brizola, in Rio Grande do Sul.
