Amid threats to land subtitles from the government base center, the president (PT) said he will not beg for the support of other parties for those of 2026 and said he found it very difficult for someone to win him.
“I will not beg for any party to be with me, will be with me who wants to be with me. I am not one of those who are trying to buy deputy. It will be with me who wants, who wants to go the other side that goes, and that is lucky because we are sure of one thing: the far right will not go back to rule that country,” he said.
The statements were made in an interview with TV Mirante, from Maranhão, aired on the morning of Tuesday (7) and recorded the day before.
Speaking about the parties, the president had been asked about the pressures made by and, parties that came together in a federation, the dismissal of the ministers (sports) and (tourism).
Lula stated that the decision will be up to the ministers, but stressed that their wish is that both will remain in government. He also said he considered a mistake PP and União Brasil to threaten the ministers of expulsion from parties if they remain in management.
“If the cosia are going well, why move? Why does this smallness of thinking that it hinders a good minister who is doing a good job? Was it angry? When the time of elections arrived each one goes to the corner he wants,” said the president.
The president also said that he will act to pacify his base in Maranhão, which is divided between allies of Governor Carlos Brandão, who was from the PSB and is now out of party, and the remaining group of, which left party politics by taking a chair in the (Supreme Court).
“If we play in service, we end up giving the opponent the chance to win that he does not have today. It is very difficult for anyone to win the elections of us in 2026, the government will end very well, Brazil is experiencing an exceptional moment,” said the president.
Following, he cited projects such as the gas of the people, the people’s light and the exemption from income tax for people who earn up to $ 5,000.
Lula went to Maranhão this Monday (6) to inaugurate 2,837 housing units of the Minha Casa, Minha Vida program. The federal government’s investment was R $ 358.6 million and must serve about 11 thousand people.
Second largest municipality in Maranhão, Imperatriz is one of the main strongholds of agribusiness in the state and has a pocket bias – in the second round of the 2022 election, Bolsonaro had 54.8% of the votes in the city, against 45.2% of Lula.
In 2024, Bolsonaro was twice in the city to leverage the candidacy of the ally Mariana Carvalho (Republicans) to the city. But the victory ended up with Rildo Amaral (PP), ally of Governor Carlos Brandão (without party).
