This Tuesday (4) the former president of the Belo Horizonte City Council was launched for the government of, in a bet that he could represent one less platform for the president (PT) in his attempt at re-election in .
Azevedo came in third place in the election for Belo Horizonte Mayor, won by (PSD), .
The emedebista’s candidacy represents a momentary setback for Lula in his quest for re-election. This is because the MDB was one of the parties that could shelter the senator (PSD-MG), former president of the Senate, if he decides to leave the PSD after joining the vice-governor of Minas Gerais, .
At the launch of the pre-candidacy, the president of the MDB, Baleia Rossi, stated that the current moment is one of generational change and oxygenation.
“Gabriel Azevedo is a great leader of the MDB here in the state. He was a candidate for mayor of Belo Horizonte in the last election and received more than 10% of the votes, 133,000 votes,” he stated. “A polarized election, an election that we entered and few believed in the electoral performance. In fact, few believed in the candidacy itself.”
“We are seeing that the hate, the fights, the attempts to get likes on social media are not delivering solutions to the real problems in our country,” he continued. “For this reason, Gabriel Azevedo’s candidacy in Minas Gerais, in the second largest electoral college in Brazil, has a much greater meaning than just a candidacy.”
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