Coordinator of the recently created Electoral Working Group, the government leader in the Chamber, says that the Minister of Finance, has to “lead President Lula’s platform in São Paulo”. “He is our main political leadership”, he explains.
Haddad has been resisting leaving the ministry to be a candidate, but has heard increasingly insistent calls from his allies to run for the government of São Paulo or the Senate.
According to Guimarães, Lula needs to have strong platforms in the three main states: São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais. Currently, only the case from Rio de Janeiro is well underway,
In Minas Gerais, the name defended by Lula is that of
Guimarães says that, after the president’s re-election, the party’s priority for 2026 is to increase the benches of senators and federal deputies. He himself intends to run for the Senate in Ceará. “We need to stop the majority of the ultra-right, because it harms the country,” he says.
In 2026, the party would like to reissue the broad front for the 2022 election, and still dreams of the support of centrist parties such as MDB, PSD and Republicans, although this possibility is now distant. “What we know is that Lula’s front has to be broader than just the left.”
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