The mayor of , (), defined on Wednesday (18) the composition of his majority ticket to run for the Government of October. The alliance includes senator Humberto Costa (), who will seek re-election, and the former deputy (), who will also run for the Senate. The official announcement of the ticket should take place by the end of the week.
In the government camp, the governor () received support for her re-election attempt. The agreement was signed at a meeting in Brasília with party leaders, including the national president of the PSD, Gilberto Kassab, and the president of União Brasil in Pernambuco and former mayor of Petrolina Miguel Coelho.
The formation of the current mayor’s ticket was agreed after meetings between João Campos and national leaders of the parties involved. The president of the PT, Edinho Silva, and the president of the PDT, Carlos Lupi, participated in the meetings. The composition leaves out the Minister of Ports and Airports, Silvio Costa Filho (Republicans), who chose to run for re-election as federal deputy.
Despite not being on the ticket, Silvio Costa Filho nominated his brother, Carlos Costa, as a pre-candidate for vice-governor.
Marília Arraes had previously expressed her intention to run for the Senate, a position that, according to allies, was consolidated given her performance in polls. She published a video on social media earlier this month stating that the decision would not be reversed. Marília left Solidariedade and joined the PDT this month.
On the other side, Miguel Coelho confirmed his pre-candidacy for the Senate and stated that he will walk alongside Governor Raquel Lyra in the election. In February, he, his father, former senator Fernando Bezerra Coelho (), and his brother, federal deputy Fernando Coelho Filho (União Brasil), were targets of a Federal Police operation in.
The alliance occurs amid the process of forming a federation between União Brasil and PP, a party chaired in Pernambuco by federal deputy Eduardo da Fonte, also mentioned as a possible name for the Senate.
The PP’s support for Raquel Lyra’s re-election has not yet been formalized. After signs of the party’s rapprochement with João Campos’ ticket, the governor dismissed party nominees who held positions in state bodies.
In the opposition camp, senator() announced the pre-candidacy of Anderson Ferreira (PL) for the Senate for Pernambuco. Former mayor of Jaboatão dos Guararapes and former federal deputy, Ferreira has already run for state government in 2022.
The announcement was made in a video published on Anderson Ferreira’s social networks. According to Flávio Bolsonaro, the former mayor should be part of the platform for his eventual candidacy for the Presidency of the Republic.
In Flávio’s notes, as demonstrated by the Sheet, despite its proximity to . The draft notes indicated that the governor would support deputy Mendonça Filho for the Senate and that he could exchange União Brasil for the PL.
Governor and mayor compete for Lula’s platform in the elections. , if he remains neutral in the dispute for the Pernambuco government. She wants the president not to support any candidate for the state Executive or to declare that he has two platforms in the state, hers and João Campos’.
Lula, in turn, is pressured by the PSB to work only for the candidacy of Campos, who presides over the party. The mayor.
and also in a commitment in Cabo de Santo Agostinho. During the passage through Pernambuco, however, the.
