Members of São Paulo’s business and intellectual elite lamented, during a dinner in honor of (PSD) on Monday (13), what they called the Bolsonarist errors and excesses of the São Paulo governor, (Republicans).
According to two people present at the meeting, they told the Sheetthe general tone was one of dismay, given that in different strata Tarcísio was seen as being on the right compared to Luiz Inácio da Silva (PT) in next year’s presidential contest.
The meeting, in the apartment of a member of the group’s social issues wing, brought together around 30 people. The report was unable to talk to Kassab about the event.
The audience was heterogeneous, without a massive representation, that is, names linked to the financial area. There were businessmen like Luiza Trajano (Magazine Luiza), Itaú heiress Neca Setúbal, former minister Nelson Jobim and lawyers like Pierpaolo Bottini.
A businessman in the medical field was incisive in his speech, saying that Tarcísio made the support he had in the productive sector unfeasible by siding with the Bolsonaro clan in the imbroglio over the tariff against Brazil.
Others cited the former Minister of Infrastructure as the former boss prepares to go to prison for an attempted coup. In evaluating gifts, Tarcísio managed to displease those who saw him as moderate and the radicals of (), who smelled opportunism in his speeches.
Kassab did not enter into these merits, according to those present. Regarding his current boss Tarcísio, of whom he is Government Secretary, he only said that the Presidency has not yet been taken, but that he has the impression that the governor will seek re-election to Palácio dos Bandeirantes.
It’s a scenario that pleases Kassab, in which he runs for vice president and, in case of Tarcísio’s victory and the governor’s search for the Presidency in 2030, he takes over the government and contests the state election that year.
Regarding Bolsonarism itself, the head of the organization said he considered the movement unfeasible due to radicalism, and gave much credit to our movements, providing the Trump government with data to try to save his father from jail.
The operation came to nothing. Despite the tariffs and Alexandre de Moraes and other magistrates, Bolsonaro received more than 27 years in prison. To make matters worse for the radicals, Trump and Lula have gotten closer and are rehearsing a reconciliation.
Kassab defended, as he has done in public, the governor’s candidacy. (PSD-PR) to the right field. It was notable that he did not mention that of governor Eduardo Leite (RS), recently incorporated into the PSD, which he justified by the youth of the 40-year-old gaucho — but the man from Paraná is 44.
The secretary predicted that his party, already consolidated in municipal terms, will have a bench of one hundred deputies in next year’s election. Today, it is the fourth force in the Chamber, alongside the MDB, with 44 names. And he once again defended a classic centrist profile, far from the left led by the PT and
He mentioned the former president a few times in his speech, leaving the impression to diners that he wants to take over the space of the political imagination — in practice, he took the spoils of the once all-powerful tucanato in , collecting around 1/3 of the state’s 645 city halls.
Finally, faithful to the firm footing he maintains in Lula’s canoe, in whose government the PSD has three ministries, Kassab assessed the PT member’s moment as favorable. Repeating what he had already said privately on other occasions, he said he saw the president working as a political heir not a PT member like Minister Fernando Haddad (Finance), but rather the deputy (-SP).
The psolista lost two in the second round in the capital of São Paulo with the support of Lula, but is seen as someone capable of carrying the flags of the left and the platformist rhetoric of the PT member, something that is not present in the ranks of the president’s party.
