According to allies, a facilitating factor would be the alliance of parties in Minas Gerais
Those around presidential candidates Ronaldo Caiado (PSD) and Romeu Zema (MG) were excited about the meeting between the two, last Tuesday (26). Internally, there are even those who say that the This possibility pleased the president of the PSD, Gilberto Kassab, who had already been internally celebrating the crisis involving Flávio Bolsonaro (PL), also a candidate for Planalto. For both parties of the presidential candidates, the reading is that now there is more feasibility of building a project outside of polarization.
The problem would be in the definition of vice. Zema has always said that he would not give up on his own candidacy, including when Flávio Bolsonaro’s possible number 2 was mentioned. Despite that, the reading is that NOVO is a small party with fewer resources, while the PSD has the machine in hand, with a large number of city halls and benches in Congress and states. An interlocutor of Kassab highlighted that the president of the party is pragmatic, and that he will do what makes the most electoral sense – including, working for what he thinks is most correct.
According to allies, a facilitating factor would be the alliance of parties in Minas Gerais, second largest electoral college in the country. There, former governor Romeu Zema supports his successor, Mateus Simões, as the future head of the Executive. Simões is from the PSD.
With a candidate from your own party, Caiado has been present on agendas in the interior of Minas. Internally, in fact, the former governor of Goiás focuses on the interior as a strategy – São Paulo, Bahia and Ceará are also in his sights, places where his pre-campaign understands that Lula has lost traction.
The two have also intensified meetings with businesspeople. In São Paulo, Faria Lima has been turning up her nose at Flavio and, in recent meetings, they have even asked for confidentiality. Many also unbooked. Among the sector,
For both Zema and Caiado’s pre-campaigns, the objective is to define and announce a vice-president only close to the conventions, between the end of July and mid-August.
*This text does not necessarily reflect the opinion of Jovem Pan.
