The PDT will formally support the re-election of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva after having its own candidacy to support the PDT candidate Juliana Brizola for the government of Rio Grande do Sul. The local conflict between the two parties was the last impasse for the national alliance to be formalized.
“Rio Grande do Sul is united for Brazil. It’s Lula there and Brizola here”, said the national president of the PDT, Carlos Lupi, to Sheet. Despite currently being allies, with a PED supporter in charge of the Ministry of Social Security, formal adherence to the PT’s national campaign was on hold.
The state presented the last impasse to be resolved between the two acronyms. The PT from Rio Grande do Sul wanted to launch the former state deputy and former president of Conab (National Supply Company) to run for Piratini Palace, while the PDT defended the name of Juliana Brizola, granddaughter of former governor Leonel Brizola.
This Thursday (09), the PT directory in Rio Grande do Sul agreed to support the Pedestrian supporter after a suppressed operation by the PT executive. Until . PT members believe that formal membership of the PDT is important because it helps Lula with issues such as calculating television time.
Before, the conflict between PT Rio Grande do Sul and the national directory escalated publicly. The party’s former national president, Tarso Genro, who was Minister of Education and Justice in the first terms of office, said last Monday (06) that an intervention would be disrespectful to the PT’s militancy and history in the state.
“I don’t believe they have the courage to make an intervention to tell the activists here in the state that our candidate is from another party”, he said at the time.
Dirceu sent a letter to the national president of the PT, , and to the party’s GTE (Tactical Electoral Group), the body that is responsible for defining the strategies and directions of the party’s electoral alliances. The former minister stated that the party was giving up, in several states, its own candidacies in the name of the alliance to re-elect Lula.
Rio Grande do Sul was one of the three states in which the PDT asked for PT’s support in negotiations to formally enter the Lulista national alliance. PT members will also support PED members for the government of Paraná, with Requião Filho, and for the Senate in Minas Gerais, with Alexandre Kalil.
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