União Brasil nominated Rubinho Nunes for the presidency of the Chamber; election takes place on the 15th
Councilors from the base of the mayor of São Paulo, Ricardo Nunes (MDB), are working together to block the possibility of councilor Rubinho Nunes (União Brasil) becoming president of the City Council. The election takes place on the 15th.
Rubinho Nunes is at odds with the mayor. In the 2024 elections, he abandoned the mayor’s campaign for re-election in the middle of the dispute and ended up supporting then-candidate Pablo Marçal (PRTB). At the time, União Brasil, which supported Ricardo Nunes, reacted to the betrayal and said it would cut the councilor’s electoral fund and would analyze a “possible expulsion”. Now, at a meeting of the Union bench in the Chamber, this Monday (1), the party chose to nominate Rubinho Nunes for the presidency of the Legislative House.
Ricardo Nunes’ base defends the re-election of Ricardo Teixeira. As a result, the struggle between the mayor’s allies and the party of Milton Leite, former councilor of São Paulo for almost 30 years and president of the Chamber several times, continues.
For the mayor’s allies, the nomination of União Brasil “doesn’t make sense”. “Who would expel the councilor from the party and now want him as president? Very strange”, said one, with reservations. Another classified the act as an “unnecessary provocation”.
Councilors interviewed by the column linked to Ricardo Nunes guarantee, however, that Rubinho Nunes has no chance. According to them, the climate of betrayal remains strong and he is unlikely to get the necessary votes. The expectation is that it will be maintained by the presidency of Ricardo Teixeira.
before the appointment of Rubinho Nunes — who managed to reverse the revocation of his diploma on the 27th with the Regional Electoral Court of São Paulo —, until then, the favorite of Milton Leite’s group was councilman Silvão Leite, also from the party. Parliamentarians linked to the mayor, at the time, said that Silvão “does not have the autonomy to be a leader.
*This text does not necessarily reflect the opinion of Jovem Pan.
