As an alternative to () and (PL), Christian Democracy will launch the Presidency, this Saturday (31), 69, whose position in the polarization is difficult to determine.
Communist and nationalist activist, former member of PC do B, he worked in PT administrations and recently. Asked about supporting Lula’s re-election, Aldo says “God forbid” — but avoids choosing between the president and Flávio in a second round.
Aldo rejects the idea that there was an attempted coup d’état, for which the former president (PL) is serving a sentence.
“The draft was based on the Constitution. I was Minister of Defense. If the president had asked me for a draft like that, I would have done it”, he says in an interview with Sheet regarding the head of the Armed Forces, which provided for the state of defense to prevent Lula from taking office.
His party, the DC, has no elected representatives and has few resources. For the vice position, , Bolsonaro’s former Communications Secretary.
Main proposals
I call it the platform of the four Rs. The first is. Lula’s economic policy is reduced to increasing expenditure because of the upcoming election and increasing taxes to cover this expense.
The second is reducing inequalities. The third is the revaluation of democracy. I am referring to the country’s ability to debate its paths with a minimum of respect, tolerance, devoid of the hatred that unfortunately marks political relationships on social media today.
And the fourth R is the reconstruction of two agendas that have been neglected: public security, national security. Brazil is a country that does not have compatible needs.
Exploration and
Brazil is not a poor country, it is a stuck country. Brazil transformed agriculture, livestock and agroindustry as if they were villains in environmental protection. So, you stop agriculture and stop agroindustry. Brazil has the largest mineral reserves, everything is immobilized, because here the .
It is the most vulnerable area in our country. Brazil needs to take action to guarantee demographic and economic occupation with environmental responsibility, respecting indigenous populations. There is no legal certainty regarding an environmental license here. You don’t know if it lasts 5 years or 50 years. A single, national licensing authority must be created. The Amazon needs infrastructure, highways, railways, waterways.
Approach to Bolsonarism
I have always been a nationalist. I joined the Communist Party for an agenda of fighting in defense of freedom, in defense of democracy, against censorship, for amnesty, for the Constituent Assembly. I was educated on the idea of loving Brazil, defending Brazil. I would say it was this sector [bolsonarismo] which came close to my schedule.
I moved away from the government’s agenda, because Lula handed the country over to this freezing of economic power. How does the President of the Republic accept that the head of an agency that he appoints, who doesn’t even have the status of a minister, who is the president of Ibama, imposes a veto on oil exploration on the equatorial margin, in a state where 73% of the population lives off income transfers, Bolsa Família?
Identitarian left
I moved away from the left because of the agenda too. The agenda of ideology has been replaced by the agenda of biology. The fight for the general interest no longer matters. Now it is the fight for interests based on biological criteria, race, skin color, gender.
The agenda of identity, customs, behavior, is the agenda of large corporations. It is the agenda imposed on Brazil by the financial system, by part of the media, by . So here’s the thing: be happy, but it’s not my agenda.
Bolsonaro’s prison
The former president [Fernando] Collor, who has much more stable health than Bolsonaro, . This is a completely absurd thing. You don’t know what justice is and what revenge is. Which is regrettable, because it generates resentment that poisons the social and political environment.
Coup attempt
If the base is that, it is not a coup attempt. It was based on the Constitution. I was Minister of Defense. If President Dilma had asked me for a draft like that, I would have done it.
What are you? Condemning an intention? Condemning an idea? Because the document completely contradicts everything that is a coup, that is done by conspiracy. President Dilma never commented on this, but if she had considered it, I would have written the document due to the situation we were experiencing, that impeachment movement. Would I be a scammer then? I don’t think so.
US invasion
It is an attitude that demonstrates the country’s disorientation. The United States’ attitude is an affront. And it is an affront to Brazil, because it is on our border and used the pretext that we need to be aware of: the issue of drug trafficking. Brazil has to consider that the Amazon rivers are already under drug control. And as economic activity was blocked, drug trafficking became a way of life for young people.
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Aldo Rebelo, 69
He was a federal deputy from 1991 to 2015 and had a career in the PC do B. He presided over the Chamber of Deputies from 2005 to 2007, was a minister in Lula’s (PT) first term and was also part of the Dilma Rousseff (PT) administration in the Sports, Science and Defense portfolios. He was municipal secretary of Institutional Relations under the Ricardo Nunes (MDB) administration in São Paulo. He left PC do B in 2017 and worked for PSB, Solidariedade, PDT and MDB, until joining DC in 2025.
