Pedro Lupion defends a center-right unity project for the 2026 elections in opposition to the government
On the eve of the election year, the president of the Parliamentary Agricultural Front (FPA), federal deputy Pedro Lupion (Republicanos-PR), sees “a good part” of the sector maintaining a different position to the current government of the President of the Republic, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, in the 2026 presidential election. “We are effectively seeking consensus in relation to the development of the sector, regarding the problems of labor, logistics, internal development of the country. from someone who has this pro-development agenda for the country, and not a single agenda, exclusively welfare and perpetuation of power”, said Lupion in an exclusive interview with Broadcast Agro, Grupo Estado’s real-time news system. “I understand that a large part of the sector will continue to have a different position to that of the current government and that we will be extremely united in the next candidacy”, he projected.
Lupion defends a center-right unity project for the 2026 elections in opposition to the Lula government. “Everyone who generates income in the country and who makes Brazil develop and grow, in addition to the agricultural sector, is on an agenda contrary to that of the current government, which taxes everything, which seeks to collect more every day and which has a gigantic electoral agenda thinking all the time about assistance. This is all costly for the country and creates a generation that depends exclusively on the State”, he criticized.
In 2022, the FPA publicly supported the re-election candidacy of former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL). Asked about possible support for the Bolsonaro family candidate or a right-wing governor, Lupion defended the search for a consensus name between the agricultural sector and the center-right. “It’s not a question of supporting or not supporting the Bolsonaro family. President Bolsonaro is the greatest leader that Brazil’s right has ever had or has with undeniable influence and relevance,” he said.
The consensus name defended by Lupion is, according to him, a candidate capable of winning the election and competing against the current government’s re-election project. “There is a wonderful group of governors, with very high approval ratings, such as Governor Tarcísio, who has the conditions to be a viable candidate, Governor Ratinho Júnior (PSD-PR), Governor Ronaldo Caiado (União-GO), Governor Romeu Zema (Novo-MG), Governor Eduardo Leite (PSD-RS), Senator Flávio Bolsonaro (PL-RJ). I want a unity ticket to win the elections”, he pointed out.
Among the possible right-wing presidential candidates, Lupion sees conditions of massive support from agribusiness for a possible candidacy of governor Tarcísio de Freitas (Republicanos-SP). “It means exactly what we defend: the ability to bring entrepreneurship back to the agenda, to reduce the size of the State, to show competitiveness through meritocracy, to invest in the country, think about great solutions and especially think in the long term. It is a different economic model to what is out there”, explained Lupion.
Amid the broad appeal of public security as one of the population’s main agendas next year, the leader of the agricultural bench points to legal security as an “extremely important” agenda for the sector.
Lupion also sees a tendency for greater tension between Congress and the Executive and greater blocking of agendas next year. “As it is an election year, I think things will be a little more complicated. President Davi Alcolumbre’s (União-AP) reaction of respect for the institutional role of the National Congress needs to be taken seriously, as it is extremely blunt”, said the president of the agricultural bench, citing a document sent by the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate to the Federal Supreme Court asking for respect for the time frame law after new demarcations of indigenous lands made by the Executive. “There is a consortium with a government leader in the Supreme Court, minister Flávio Dino, who only deals with government agendas. Everything that the government cannot overcome, the government judicializes”, he argues
For the ruralist leader, the tension between Congress and the Judiciary also tends to persist next year. “The Supreme Court is focused on a political fight. As long as they personify the fight, we will not be able to advance any agenda”, he said.
As for the future of the front itself, which has become the largest bench and one of the most influential in Congress with 353 parliamentarians, Lupion believes in expanding the FPA, especially in the Senate, which will renew two thirds of the college of senators. “The Senate has an extremely important role in balancing the powers in the Republic, the independence of the powers and the moderation of each person’s role. We have all the conditions to have a majority of these two thirds”, noted the president of the FPA.
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