The de announced that it will have a candidate for president of the Republic. Since Tarcísio proved to be a coward, the center went about minding his own business.
The PSD’s announcement was made during the party’s affiliation, and in the presence of another presidential candidate, the governor of Rio Grande do Sul. But the most likely candidate is the governor of Paraná,..
A candidate from the democratic right, at this point, would be great news. But if this is what the PSD wants to offer the electorate in 2026, the start was not promising.
Both Ratinho Jr. and Caiado have already promised amnesty to the coup plotters from 2022-2023. Both criticized him for not giving in to Trump during the tariff. If they are now making a move back to the center, it is because the far right has rejected them.
If the candidate from the moderate right also defends releasing from jail the coup plotters who tried to put me in prison, forgive my lack of enthusiasm.
Of the PSD presidential candidates, only one had the courage to take a stand against the amnesty, and, in fact, defended centrist positions in recent years: Eduardo Leite, governor of Rio Grande do Sul.
Leite was never exactly in the trenches against the coup, but he does not support the amnesty or the rest of the extremist package. If he launches himself for the Presidency in these terms, he could legitimately be called a candidate of the center-right, of the moderate right, of anything like that. Assuming, of course, that he doesn’t waste it all by supporting Flávio in the second round.
In any case, a new right-wing candidacy creates problems for . After all, his only argument so far is “dad killed Tarcísio, only me is left”.
For example, so far, Flavinho has not found a relevant economist who accepts to play the role of “Posto Ipiranga” that Guedes played in his father’s candidacy. So far, nothing: the legend that Paulo Guedes was a great economist is a construction subsequent to the economic elite’s adherence to Bolsonarism. No list of the 50, I suspect the 100, probably the 500 greatest Brazilian economists would include his name before 2018.
Even so, the participation of a literate economist would help Flávio. And it’s difficult for any of them to do so without being able to resort to the argument “it’s this rubbish here or Lula”.
In any case, this improvised center-right six months before the election was only necessary because the right spent the last three years betting on a strategy that failed: trying to moderate Bolsonarism.
This was never possible, because the most radical member of Bolsonarism is Jair himself. But the right has also scandalously sabotaged its own strategy. He kept Bolsonarism alive with exemptionism “The STF also exceeded itself”, with nods to amnesty and dosimetry, and with an agreement, never well explained, that spared Bolsonarist politicians in the investigations into the coup.
If Bolsonarism had been rejected in its entirety on January 9, 2023, by now the center-right would have a better candidate than Ratinho Jr..
A non-Bolsonaro right-wing candidacy is good news; but it is embarrassing that this “no” was uttered by Jair, not by Ratinho Jr., Caiado or, in fact, Tarcísio.
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