The Workers’ Party (PT) demanded an effort from its members to re-elect President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, elect larger benches in the Chamber and Senate and also governors. Despite the message being generic in tone, the demand adds to what some PT members have said publicly and privately for their main members to be candidates this year.
The resolution of the PT National Executive, released on the night of this Thursday, 29th, says that this election “will have a historic character” and that the “re-election of President Lula is a strategic condition to consolidate democracy, defeat Bolsonarism, the Brazilian aspect of fascism, anti-national, anti-people projects and deepen the transformations initiated in Brazil, aimed at overcoming inequalities and a new project of national, sovereign, sustainable and inclusive development”.
On Wednesday, the 28th, in a conversation with journalists, the minister of the Institutional Relations Secretariat, Gleisi Hoffmann, used the same term (“historical”) to refer to the current moment and demand that the main figures of the PT be candidates, including the Minister of Finance, Fernando Haddad.
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“The task facing 2026 requires, in addition to the re-election of President Lula, the construction of a democratic and popular majority in the National Congress. It is essential that our campaign dialogue with the Brazilian people about the importance of electing deputies, senators and governors from the PT and parties committed to the project led by Lula”, stated the party.
The document does not at any time demand that public figures be candidates, but reinforces in several sections the need to take the moment seriously. He says, for example, that this will be the “great political battle of 2026”.
“2026 is the year to reaffirm that Brazil chooses democracy, social justice, national sovereignty and the future. And this choice necessarily involves the re-election of President Lula, the election of many governors and a parliamentary majority in the Chamber and the Senate committed to this project and the definitive defeat of Bolsonarism as a power project”, he said.
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The PT has intensified demands for its main leaders to be candidates. This request practically has a first and last name: Fernando Haddad. The Minister of Finance is the PT member with great relevance who most resists calls to be a candidate. Others, such as the Minister of the Secretariat of Institutional Relations, Gleisi Hoffmann, have already accepted requests made by Lula. The woman from Paraná, for example, changed her plans and agreed to be a candidate for the Senate. Before, he would seek a seat in the Chamber of Deputies.
