The governor (Republicans) presented the president of Alesp (Legislative Assembly), (), as the second candidate for the Senate on his ticket, closing the composition that should go to the polls in October.
The president of Alesp is here this Tuesday (5) and, according to Tarcísio, he spoke about the matter with the federal deputy (PL-SP), obtaining his approval.
Until the beginning of last year, before Eduardo moved abroad, it was the son of the former president (PL) who would have the vacancy, in an agreement made with Tarcísio and leaders of the parties that support him.
“[André] agreed on this pre-candidacy with Eduardo. It’s in the United States right now. These conversations were already happening. Obviously, the decision would be made – and this was agreed back then with the [ex-]President Bolsonaro – to [ex-]president and Eduardo. Eduardo gave up his candidacy and so this pre-candidacy goes to André do Prado. It will be made official by them, but I’m already here giving you this news”, said Tarcísio, at an event, at Palácio dos Bandeirantes, to talk about road works.
The president of Alesp is the main ally of the president of the PL, Valdemar Costa Neto, in the state and, throughout his term, he strengthened ties with Tarcísio.
André do Prado, who has an electoral stronghold in the Alto Tietê region, in the east of the capital’s metropolitan region, had traveled to the United States last week for a first conversation with the former president’s son, according to his allies. He traveled again on Monday night (4), sealing the agreement.
Among Bolsonaro supporters, there is an expectation that Eduardo himself will appear as a substitute senator in André’s candidacy, considering that, formally, he is not ineligible. The seam considers that, in a possible victory of (PL) for the Presidency, there would be conditions for Eduardo to return to Brazil and assume the mandate.
With André’s name closed, the ticket with which Tarcísio will seek re-election maintains his current vice-president, Felício Ramuth (MDB), and also includes federal deputy Guilherme Derrite (PP-SP) in the other Senate seat. Derrite was Secretary of Public Security.
At the press conference in which he made the announcement, Tarcísio also criticized the former Minister of Finance (), pre-candidate opposing Tarcísio for the São Paulo government, who last week pointed out flaws in the management of São Paulo’s finances.
“That’s all I needed, Haddad talking about fiscal policy in the state of São Paulo. You’re joking. Is the guy who broke Brazil going to talk about the state of São Paulo? I’m ashamed to talk about something like that,” said Tarcísio.
“Come on, Haddad’s legacy in the federal government: seven points more debt-to-GDP ratio. The biggest tax burden in history. A bunch of people in debt. A huge number of companies in judicial recovery. The second highest real interest rate in the world”, he said. “And this guy really wants to talk about tax? Oh, do me a favor, give me a break”, he said.
Tarcísio also refuted a specific statement by Haddad, who last week had said that the governor was submissive to the North American president.
“What does the state of São Paulo have to do with Trump? Do me a favor. We don’t do foreign policy here. He has to stop talking nonsense. He didn’t work for three years, now he wants to talk nonsense. That’s it. Every day talking nonsense. We’re here every day making a delivery”, he said.
In a note, Haddad said that the Lula government “received from the hands of the Bolsonaro government a fictitious budget piece with a primary deficit in 2023 of R$63 billion” and that, “adding this to the defaults in court orders, governors and Bolsa Família, the deficit delivered by Bolsonaro to Lula was more than R$200 billion”.
The PT member stated that the situation is very different from that which will be sent to Congress in the 2027 Budget Bill and that, in the case of Tarcísio, “they are destroying the state’s finances”. “The situation is only worse because of the Lula government’s aid to the state and the sale of public assets in dubious auctions,” said Haddad’s note.
The former Minister of Finance questioned the existence of R$23 billion in gross cash in São Paulo in the 2025 balance sheet saying that, discounting the contracted obligations and remaining payments, there would be a net balance of R$5.4 billion, “in addition to having had the worst budgetary result in the history of SP and in the accumulated result of the first 3 years having made the state’s primary result much worse”.
