10/08/2024 – 17:55
The PT leadership released a note this Tuesday, 8th, in which it instructs its members to campaign intensely for Guilherme Boulos (PSOL) in São Paulo and for the candidacies of other political forces that oppose the extreme right in the second round. The text is from the party’s National Executive Committee.
“Our main task, in this second round, is to strengthen the campaigns in the 13 cities in which we are contesting, and fight with all our strength for the victory of Boulos and Marta, uniting the popular and democratic camp against the extreme right in the largest city in the country” , says the PT command.
“With the same commitment, we will engage in the campaigns of candidates from other parties in cities where there will be a second round against candidates from the extreme right, without hesitation”, states the note.
The party’s leadership states that the first round marks the beginning of the PT’s electoral recovery in the municipalities. In 2020, the party elected 182 mayors. In the first round this year, there were 248. There are eight parties with more heads of municipal executive.
“The result of the first round of 2024 points to the beginning of the PT’s electoral recovery in the municipalities, in a scenario that once again favored the election or re-election of candidates from the dominant center-right and right-wing parties in the National Congress, with access to parliamentary amendments billionaires and in command of municipal public machines. The high rate of re-elections, which approaches 80% in the cities that received the most parliamentary amendments, confirms this distortion in the political system”, states the party.
The caption also cites the victories of Eduardo Paes (PSD), in Rio de Janeiro, and João Campos (PSB), in Recife, both re-elected. In the case of Rio, Paes’ victory imposed “on the extreme right its most resounding electoral defeat, in the political birthplace of Jair Bolsonaro”, according to the PT Executive.
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