The Minister of Finance, , will leave the federal government next week to run for the government of . Previously doubtful about the minister’s willingness to fight, Haddad’s direct collaborators now consider his candidacy for Palácio dos Bandeirantes to be certain.
The departure date was brought forward by the newspaper O Globo and confirmed by Sheet.
The minister should take a break before officially launching himself as a candidate for government. One of your tasks will be to assemble your platform. The minister usually tells allies that the vice-president must be trusted by the head of the ticket.
At the end of last month, Haddad began running for Government of São Paulo. He had dinner with the president () to discuss his political future. Weeks before, he had a private coffee with the president in São Paulo.
Lula told close politicians that the Finance Minister’s candidacy was underway. The president of the PT, Edinho Silva, also repeated this diagnosis in his conversations.
The minister’s assistants were uncertain. This doubt, however, no longer exists. The most likely is that the ministers (Environment) and (Planning) will be candidates for the Senate for São Paulo, on Haddad’s ticket.
Both will have to change parties to run. The tendency is for Marina to migrate from Rede to PT; Tebet, from MDB to PSB. In the case of the Minister of Planning, she will also have to change her electoral domicile from Mato Grosso do Sul to São Paulo.
Haddad resisted for fear of losing the election and ending his political career with a new defeat in São Paulo. But, according to allies, Lula defended the importance of a candidacy that guarantees him a solid platform in the country’s largest electoral college. The rise of (PL) in opinion polls, however, led the minister to rethink his own choice.
The fact that he is, on the left, the best positioned for the dispute, is also important, as shown in .
When the question asks about the candidates’ level of knowledge, the Finance Minister is tied, in the margin of error, with the governor (Republicans). Exactly half (50%) said they knew Haddad well and 47% said the same about Tarcísio.
Vice-president Geraldo Alckmin (PSB), four times governor of São Paulo, is known very well by 54% and minister Simone Tebet (MDB), who is from Mato Grosso do Sul, by 22%.
In the scenario stimulated with five names, Tarcísio leads with 44% of voting intentions. He is followed by Haddad, with 31%, by the former mayor of Santo André, Paulo Serra (PSDB), with 5%, by the federal deputy, with 5%, and by commentator Felipe D’Avila (Novo), with 3%.
