The PT will begin broadcasting on television, this week, the first party insertions with Fernando Haddad (PT) since he was announced as a pre-candidate for the government of São Paulo. In the two materials, which have already been published on Haddad and the party’s social networks, the former Finance Minister highlights the federal government’s investments in major works in São Paulo.
In one of them, President Lula (PT) appears talking to Haddad on the phone. In the other, the pre-candidate appears alone. Without directly citing governor Tarcísio de Freitas (Republicans), his main opponent, Haddad states that “the state government never shows the billions invested by the Lula government”.
— Direct transfers, financing via BNDES, loan guarantees and the renegotiation of São Paulo’s debt, which I myself led as Minister of Finance, making these works viable, but they do not reveal this. But that’s okay, because our partnership is with you, the people of São Paulo — says the former minister in the material, entitled “the truth about the works in São Paulo”.
In the other, Haddad refers to the state as “the great engine of the country’s economy” and states that “never has a federal government worked so hard for São Paulo”, while Lula says that “São Paulo deserves much more”.
In the images, works such as the Northern section of the Rodoanel, which received financing of R$ 1.3 billion from the National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES), the Intercidades Train (TIC) that will connect São Paulo to Campinas (which will also have financing via BNDES), the expansion of Metro lines, such as Line 2 (Green), hospitals and health equipment and housing units of Minha Casa Minha Vida.
The paternity dispute over major works in São Paulo has already been drawn up for months by Tarcísio and Haddad, as shown The Globeand has even caused barbs to be exchanged in public between the two administrations. In March, Lula used an event with mayors in São Paulo to say that the current governor announces works funded by the two entities “as if they were his”.
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— Both the train, the tunnel and subway, are financed by BNDES on behalf of the federal government. Here in São Paulo, practically 60% of the houses built are from Minha Casa, Minha Vida, which here they call Casa Paulista. And the governor has inaugurated many of these houses, he could at least have the simplicity to say “these houses were built by the federal government, and I asked permission to call them Casa Paulista”. Which is a program created by Alckmin when he was governor. He didn’t even create a name, he just plagiarized it — he said at the time.
Days later, at an event at Palácio dos Bandeirantes to announce new Casa Paulista units, Tarcísio countered the President of the Republic’s criticism, stating that “he doesn’t get upset because he’s used to hearing his nonsense”.
– Those who don’t have anything to show have to live on narrative, on propaganda. The problem is that citizens no longer see themselves in propaganda. When someone has to come to SP to participate in certain deliveries to say “BNDES financed this”, that is, they are entering into a credit operation, which is the bank’s obligation, as if the credit operation were a favor. It is the core of the bank, if BNDES does not exist to finance the infrastructure, what will it exist for? – he spoke.
In December, during the inauguration event of the first stage of the Rodoanel Norte, the president of BNDES, Aloizio Mercadante, complained about the lack of mention of federal bank financing on the work’s inauguration plaque. Tarcísio, in turn, praised former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL) and attributed the delay in the work to corruption in previous governments and the Lava-Jato operation.
