Former Minister of Defense begins to circulate in Brazil and to move as a pre-candidate for vice president
General Walter Braga Netto, special adviser to President Jair Bolsonaro (PL), began to act as a pre-candidate for vice president and took over actions in the reelection campaign of the chief executive.
The former Minister of Defense goes to Belo Horizonte (MG) this Thursday (June 2, 2022). Minas Gerais, he will meet with businessmen at Fiemg (Federation of Industries of the State of Minas Gerais) to present achievements and government deliveries, in particular for the home state.
O Power 360 found that Bolsonaro guided Braga Netto to capture the perceptions and anxieties of the Minas Gerais business community about the positive and negative aspects of his government.
The president went to Fiemg on May 25, when he stated that he will recreate the Ministry of Industry and Commerce if he is re-elected. “I confess that [a recriação] was already a little mature, but now sealed its end. Once there is another opportunity, later this year, it is already in the hands of the [presidente da Câmara, Arthur] Lira [PP-AL]the recreation of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce”, Bolsonaro said.
In addition to the meeting with businessmen, Braga Netto will represent Bolsonaro in the inauguration of the new board of the Minas Gerais Association of Municipalities. The event should bring together representatives of part of the 853 mayors of Minas Gerais.
pure plate
Braga Netto joined the PL in March. He left the command of the Ministry of Defense and is currently special adviser to the Presidency. Before that, he also headed the Civil House. If the ticket is finalized, it will be the 2nd time that the president will contest the elections with a general. In 2018, number 2 was Hamilton Mourão (Republicans).
If signed, the Bolsonaro-Braga double will be a ‘pure plate’, as the union of 2 candidates of the same legend is called. With that, the presidentwill be the 1st Chief Executive to run for re-election with such a composition.
Bolsonaro will also be the first since 1998, when re-election was allowed, to change the vice-presidential candidate before trying to stay in power for another 4 years. Fernando Henrique Cardoso, from the PSDB, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and Dilma Rousseff, from the PT, repeated the names of their vice presidents when they ran for 2nd term.
Bolsonaro has not yet officially announced that Braga Netto will be his No. 2. He gives clear signs, however, that this will be the scenario. He has already stated that his running mate is born in Minas Gerais and that “He went to military school”.
The Chief Executive understands that appointing a military man of Braga Netto’s size as vice president on his ticket pleases the most loyal public, made up of police, firefighters and security agents. He says internally that hardly a military will betray him in case of low popularity.
Influential and politically well connected, the military man gained notoriety in Rio de Janeiro in 2018. He was responsible for leading the federal intervention in the state, imposed by then president Michel Temer.
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