Traditional opponents of national politics, former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) and former São Paulo governor Geraldo Alckmin met publicly last night for the first time since they both began negotiating an alliance to dispute the election de 2022. Organized by Prerogatives, a group of “anti-Lavajatistas” lawyers, the “Dinner for Democracy” gathered around 500 guests in São Paulo, including governors and other prominent leaders.
Although there is no formal union, the encounter is loaded with symbology; São Paulo governor four times for the PSDB, Alckmin paraded last Wednesday and is studying invitations from various subtitles to trace his political destiny.
Even at the head of the race for the São Paulo succession, according to polling intentions, the former tucano should prioritize the national dispute and assume the pre-candidacy for vice president, composing with Lula. “In Solidarity, we already told him (Alckmin) that, if he wants to be vice-president, he will be very welcome”, said the president of the party, Paulo Pereira da Silva, Paulinho da Força.
Alckmin, however, has a previous invitation from the PSB, where in fact negotiations began to get him closer to Lula in recent months. The PSB, however, has imposed a series of conditions on the PT to seal the agreement. Among them, the withdrawal of the pre-candidacy of former mayor Fernando Haddad for the government of São Paulo and support for former governor Márcio França (PSB). Haddad and the PT members resist this hypothesis, which opened the door to the attempt at Solidarity.
The former toucan had also been negotiating with the PSD of Gilberto Kassab and the president of the Senate, Rodrigo Pacheco (MG), but to try to return to Palácio dos Bandeirantes.
BACKSTAGE
As soon as they arrived at the A Figueira Rubaiyat restaurant, in São Paulo, where the dinner was held, Alckmin and Lula met in a reserved room. Later, the former mayor of Manaus, defeated in the PSDB caucuses that defined João Doria as a tucano pre-candidate, joined them, as well as former senator Almino Afonso and deputy Marcelo Freixo (PSB-RJ), who he had already met Alckmin in the morning. The PT’s support for Freixo also entered the socialist interests package at stake in the possible affiliation of the former São Paulo governor.
With tickets at R$ 500 (Prerogatives foresees donating the amount raised for the purchase of basic food baskets in partnership with the Black Coalition for Rights), the invitations were quickly sold out after the confirmation that Lula would be present. The meeting attracted lawyers and political leaders from across the country, such as governors Paulo Câmara (PSB), from Pernambuco, and Wellington Dias (PT), from Piauí, and the CPI summit at Covid, with senators Omar Aziz (PSD- AM), Randolfe Rodrigues (Rede-AP) and Renan Calheiros (MDB-AL). Presidents of several parties also participated, including the PSB, Carlos Siqueira, and the PT, Gleisi Hoffmann.
The party had a tone of disapproval to Lula for the period in which the former president was imprisoned because of Operation Lava Jato. Attorney Marco Aurélio Carvalho, one of the coordinators of Prerogatives, highlighted that the PDT pre-candidate, Ciro Gomes, was invited to participate in the event after the Federal Police’s operation that carried out searches and seized personal equipment of the former governor of Ceará in the last week.
Cited in investigations into the alleged misuse of public funds in the construction of Arena Castelões, in Fortaleza, the PDT complained of political persecution by the “police state” maintained by President Jair Bolsonaro. Ciro, however, did not come to dinner. The information is from the newspaper The State of São Paulo.
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