The national president of the MDB, Baleia Rossi, met on Monday night, the 9th, with the governor of São Paulo, Tarcísio de Freitas (Republicans), in São Paulo. In a post on social media this Tuesday, 10th, Rossi stated that the conversation reinforced the partnership between the MDB and the São Paulo government, signed four years ago. According to him, the relationship is marked by “loyalty and respect”.
“I was with the governor of São Paulo, Tarcísio de Freitas, last night. We talked about the electoral scenario in Brazil and in São Paulo, where the MDB will reinforce its partnership established four years ago, which (has) been marked by loyalty and mutual respect”, wrote the leader on his profile on X.
The meeting takes place amid behind-the-scenes negotiations between President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) and the MDB about the possibility of nominating a name from the acronym for the position of vice-president on the re-election ticket in October. Members of the party deny that the issue is being formally discussed within the party.
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In São Paulo, the MDB is led by the mayor of the capital, Ricardo Nunes, an ally of Tarcísio and who had the support of former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL) in his campaign for reelection in 2024. At the national level, the party has not yet defined whether it will have its own candidacy for the Presidency, whether it will support another name or whether it will adopt a position of neutrality in the dispute.
Earlier, the national president of the PT, Edinho Silva, stated that it will be up to vice-president Geraldo Alckmin (PSB) to decide whether to seek re-election to the position or run again for the government of São Paulo. Publicly, the Minister of Finance, Fernando Haddad (PT), has also been pressured by allies to return to the dispute for Palácio dos Bandeirantes.
Despite maintaining cadres aligned with the Palácio do Planalto, such as senator Renan Calheiros (MDB-AL) and the Minister of Planning, Simone Tebet, the MDB houses different internal currents and has expanded regional alliances that do not go through the PT, especially in states governed by parties from the center and right-wing camps.
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In this context, Lula and PT leaders are evaluating the possibility of encouraging Tebet’s candidacy for the Senate or for the government of São Paulo, under the assessment that his name could strengthen the president’s platform in the largest electoral college in the country. The minister, however, built her political trajectory in Mato Grosso do Sul.
The last time PT and MDB were together in a structured way in the Presidency of the Republic was during the governments of former president Dilma Rousseff, between 2011 and 2016. At the time, MDB – then PMDB – was part of the government coalition and nominated vice-president Michel Temer, composing the winning ticket in the 2010 and 2014 elections.
The alliance was broken in 2016, when the MDB left the government and started supporting Dilma’s impeachment process in Congress. Since then, the two parties have not formed a national coalition in the same way again, despite the current government of President Lula having three emedebistas on the Esplanada and maintaining specific negotiations with the party.
