He currently has a preference for a possible succession in 2026, say the governor’s allies. Ramuth is also preferred to form a team with Tarcísio again, if he does.
The inclination was consolidated after the weekend, when the mayor of , (), became . As , Colonel Mello Araújo (PL), made in an interview with Sheetgreatly reduce the possibility that Nunes will give up her seat to run in the next elections.
The president of Alesp (São Paulo Legislative Assembly), has already been mentioned as an option by the governor in private conversations, but, according to allies, he is seen as a weak option electorally. Pupil of the party president, Valdemar Costa Neto, he is not part of the party’s Bolsonarist wing.
Both Nunes and André point to Ramuth as Tarcísio’s “natural” successor in the event he runs for President.
“I think the natural tendency is Felício Ramuth. Obviously, you’re going to have to sit down with other parties, we’re going to have to talk to everyone,” said Nunes, last Monday (24), at an event in a hotel in the south zone. “If the possibility of the governor leaving arises, Felício will be the governor and is a natural candidate for re-election,” André told Sheet this Thursday (26).
The difference is that, saying that he will fulfill his entire term, while André do Prado states that he will work to qualify as an alternative. “I will present my name as an option and seek viability with the governor and all allied parties”, said the president of the Assembly, making himself official as a pre-candidate.
Other politicians following the discussions state, however, that the PL will already be awarded one of the seats in the Senate, nominated by the former president, and that, therefore, it would not need to also run on the government ticket.
Secretary of Tarcísio and president of the , he has also shown interest in replacing the governor or being his deputy in 2026, but is met with resistance from other party leaders.
Marcos Pereira, from the Republicans, for failing to become president of the Chamber of Deputies; Ciro Nogueira, from the PP, also has friction with Tarcísio’s secretary, accused of using his position in the government for the PSD’s interior mayors; Valdemar, from PL, has already stated that the party bench for having ceded the vice-president of the government ticket to the PSD in 2022.
One of Ramuth’s advantages in the dispute over Tarcísio’s possible succession is that he would only be allowed a single mandate — this would please the other politicians in the alliance, such as Nunes, who could run for government in 2030.
To run for President, Tarcísio would need to leave his position in April of next year, when he would take over as vice president. As a result, according to electoral rules, the PSD politician could only run for government once again, in October 2026.
As shown, the leading role of senator Flávio Bolsonaro (PL) in episodes that justified the arrest of his father, Jair Bolsonaro, last weekend, weakened his intention to run for President and, therefore, strengthened Tarcísio’s name in the dispute.
Even after Bolsonaro’s arrest, however, he is a pre-candidate for President and said he is committed to the government in São Paulo.
Nunes had been trying to qualify to run for government succession since the end of last year, when he assembled his team and appointed four former mayors of interior cities to his secretariat.
The plan, according to his assistants, was to open electoral platforms in cities where he was not well known.
Still in March, when a survey of electoral intentions showed him ahead of his opponents, he sent the survey to allied councilors saying, in a joking tone, that they were already campaigning.
However, from the beginning, some of Vice Mello Araújo’s stances bothered his political group, such as direct attacks on Tarcísio. The vice-mayor is from the most radical wing of Bolsonarism and is critical of what he considers the governor’s lack of loyalty towards the former president.
Last week, when the colonel publicly demanded Nunes and Tarcísio for recognition of their actions to end the flow of users in Cracolândia, the assessment of those around the governor was that it would not be possible to leave control of the city in his hands.
