The former Minister of the Environment decided to remain in , where she will be a candidate in these . The preference of the federation formed by the party with PSOL is that it compete for one of the Senate seats in São Paulo.
Marina is in an internal dispute with the wing linked to federal deputy Heloísa Helena (RJ), who currently heads the party. Although she admitted to having acronyms like PT, PV, and , she already signaled .
The decision to remain in the party that he helped found – and which suffered from the last month – was taken this Friday (3), the last day of the party window, after a meeting with members of the federation formed by Rede with PSOL.
At the meeting, the parties expressed a preference for launching Marina into the Senate alongside (PSB), former Minister of Planning, on the ticket that will have PT member Fernando Haddad running for the Government of São Paulo.
“[Marina Silva] It’s the name we will defend [ao Senado] together with the other parties”, he told Sheet the president of the PSOL-Rede federation, Juliano Medeiros.
However, there is still an impasse over who the candidates for the two seats for the legislative house will be on the ticket.
Although the president (PT) has already expressed that he wants Marina and Tebet to compete for the vacancies, the former minister (PSB), of Entrepreneurship, also has his eye on the Senate election.
As Tebet and França belong to the same party, and Tebet’s candidacy is taken for granted, the party headed by the PT seeks a solution for the platform. The intention is for vacancies for majority positions to be filled by candidates with different acronyms, in order to accommodate as many allies as possible from the front formed in the state, but there is a fear that France will put forward its name even without PT support.
At Rede and at PSOL, the idea prevails that Marina needs to be on the São Paulo stage anyway. Therefore, even though they are upset, the parties do not rule out casting her as federal deputy again, as occurred in the 2022 election, when she was elected with 237,500 votes. This option, however, is still under discussion.
Marina on Wednesday (1st) with falling deforestation rates and the expansion of policies to combat environmental crimes. At the head of the department since 2023, she also suffered defeats, such as the authorization to search for and the approval of the “destruction package”, a series of laws that .
