National president of , stated this Monday (16) that senator Tereza Cristina (PP-MS) would be the ideal vice-president for Flávio Bolsonaro’s (PL-RJ) candidacy for the Presidency of the Republic, but that the decision on the post will be up to the senator and his father, the former president.
“Everyone has a guess and we haven’t discussed it yet. Mine? Tereza Cristina”, said Valdemar when asked about his preference for the ticket during the Frente a Frente program, on Sheet and UOL, this Monday.
Valdemar was the first interviewee on the weekly interview program, which debuted tonight. He said that the governor of Minas Gerais, Romeu Zema (Novo), would also “be wonderful” as vice president and would help win votes in the state, the second largest electoral college in the country, behind São Paulo. However, he said he prefers Tereza Cristina because she “has a charisma that is business.”
“But I’m not going to make any guesses about that, it’s Flávio and Bolsonaro who will choose,” he said.
During the interview, Valdemar said that Flávio has presented “an advantage” in relation to his father’s campaign in 2022.
“Flávio has a calmer demeanor. You must be tired of hearing this, Flávio got vaccinated. It was a war with Bolsonaro for him to get vaccinated.”
In Valdemar’s assessment, the former president’s high rejection among women is largely due to his resistance to getting vaccinated against Covid-19 during the pandemic and also to accepting a female vice-candidate in his attempt to be re-elected.
“We even insisted, at the time, on asking for a female deputy. Because the [Walter] Braga Netto, despite being an honest man, a decent man, didn’t give him a vote. All military personnel already voted for Bolsonaro. It was a total mistake, there it was a brutal mistake. And there was no point in talking to him.”
Asked what argument Bolsonaro used to counter the requests of a woman as vice president, Valdemar replied: “He simply didn’t argue.” At the time, the president of the PL already defended that the post should go to Tereza Cristina, who had been Minister of Agriculture in the Bolsonaro government.
A Sheet and UOL debuted, this Monday (16), Frente a Frente, a weekly interview program focusing on 2026. Presented by journalist Fábio Zanini, editor of the Panel column, and by Daniela Lima, UOL columnist, the program airs every Monday, at 7pm, on UOL’s YouTube and UOL Channel, broadcast on the home page of Sheet.
