The former minister of the Civil House put pressure on the PT leadership against the party’s own candidacy in Rio Grande do Sul. The party’s Gaucho directory resisted supporting the PDT candidate for state government, Juliana Brizola, but this Thursday (09) after a suppressed operation by the PT national executive.
Dirceu sent a letter to the national president of the PT, , and to the party’s GTE (Tactical Electoral Group), the body that is responsible for defining the strategies and directions of the party’s electoral alliances. The former minister stated that the party was giving up, in several states, its own candidacies in the name of the alliance to re-elect the president.
This week, the conflict escalated. The PT from Rio Grande do Sul, which defended the name of former state deputy and former president of Conab (National Supply Company) Edegar Pretto to run for Piratini Palace, complained about what it considered an attempted intervention by the national directory.
“Practically throughout Brazil, this policy was accepted and defined by state directorates. (…) Therefore, it is not an intervention, as is being argued in the Gaucho case, nor statutory violence, but simply the application, in the opinion of GTE Nacional, of the tactics defined by the National Directorate”, says an excerpt from the letter sent by Dirceu to Edinho.
Dirceu’s entry into the game was seen as a way to balance the dispute, which was full of historical PT scenes. Edegar Pretto was supported by names such as former governors Tarso Genro and Olívio Dutra.
Former national president of the party, Tarso, who was Minister of Education and Justice in the first terms of , said that an intervention is disrespectful to the militancy and history of the PT in Rio Grande do Sul, which commanded the state twice and governed Porto Alegre from 1989 to 2004.
“I don’t believe they have the courage to make an intervention to tell the activists here in the state that our candidate is from another party”, he said at the time.
Rio Grande do Sul, however, was one of the three states in which the PDT asked for PT’s support in negotiations to formally enter the Lulista national alliance. It is expected that the resolution will guarantee Lula a platform in the state and pave the way for the PED supporters to formally join the Lulist campaign.
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