With registration (4), Missão, a party linked to , intends to launch a candidacy for the Presidency, targets state governments and rejects alliances with Bolsonarism and Novo, expanding the party dispute for right-wing Brazilian voters.
“[Os partidos da direita] are opposing the government fighting for amnesty [a Bolsonaro]”, he said to Sheet Renan Santos, future president of the party, when commenting on the approval of the new party. He criticizes what he assesses as the lack of proposals in the ideological field. “We’re not the same right as the guys.”
The MBL had already broken with Bolsonaro during his term. In the elections for the Presidency of the Chamber in 2021, during the Covid-19 pandemic, the deputy (União-SP) launched a candidacy with the sole agenda of impeachment of the then president. Clashes between MBL members and Bolsonarists are frequent on the networks.
Officially, Renan remains critical of the group and the Novo party. He says that Missão targets young people dissatisfied with the government and identifies room for growth in the liberal-conservative electorate.
“Novo is betting on Bolsonaro’s ‘Zap aunts’. We’re betting on the millennial pistol and generation Z”, he states.
“[Os bolsonaristas] they are opposing the Lula government talking about amnesty. We are talking about defavelization and classification of factions as terrorists [proposta defendida por Donald Trump]. Nikolas [Ferreira] Do you have a position on slum clearance? Now, after we address the issue”, says the leader, citing the deputy from Minas Gerais.
The term “defavelization” gained traction on social networks with videos made with artificial intelligence that show reurbanized favelas. On Instagram, Renan associates the issue with “the State’s lack of authority to repress invasions”.
A Sheet He looked for Nikolas and the New One, but received no response.
Renan states that Missão will look for candidates aligned with the group’s agenda and that it does not intend to attract well-known names from other acronyms. “To receive someone from the center or the right, the future candidate would have to commit to our agenda and recant”, he states.
On social media and YouTube, some members of the group are prominent in defending the MBL agenda, such as influencers Paulo Cruz and Ricardo Almeida, and it is expected that they will be some of the names to be launched. On the group’s pages, MBL declares it has 1,100 collaborators.
For professor André Borges Carvalho, from UnB, the anti-corruption wave and Lava Jato, which boosted the MBL from 2014, lost strength. He sees a right divided between Bolsonarists and a pro-market conservative camp.
“Lula, when he was arrested, managed to maintain control of the PT and had a party structure with him. Bolsonaro does not command the PL, he never has.” However, he assesses that a viable right-wing candidacy still needs to seek the votes of the former president’s voters.
Renan rejects the assessment that the initiative could favor the left by dividing the right. “If a guy is thinking that, he must think that I shouldn’t have opposed Bolsonaro in the past,” he says. “Vox populi is not vox Dei [a voz do povo não é a voz de Deus].”
He also rules out regional agreements with Bolsonaro supporters. “I think Tarcísio is Bolsonaro’s ass-kisser,” he says.
The collection of 589 thousand signatures was financed, according to the group, through the sale of a collection of books with party proposals. Renan preferred not to say how much he raised, but estimated that the cost for each signature sent to the TSE was between R$2 and R$3.
The MBL emerged 11 years ago, in the aftermath of the 2013 protests, and elected representatives from other parties, such as . The movement was shaken in 2022 after the release of a misogynistic audio by then state deputy Arthur do Val, Mamãe Falei,.
