09/01/2024 – 20:15
The Secretary of International Relations of the City of São Paulo, Marta Suplicy (no party), must return to the PT to be vice-president on the ticket headed by Guilherme Boulos (PSOL-SP) for the City of São Paulo. Elected mayor of São Paulo in 2000 and senator in 2010 for the party, she left the party in 2015, stating that the party was responsible for “one of the biggest corruption scandals that the Brazilian nation has ever experienced”, in reference to the facts revealed by the Operation Lava Jato.
Marta joined the PT in 1981, one year after the party was founded, and remained in the party's ranks for 33 years. According to her acronym, she was a federal deputy (1995 – 1999); mayor of the capital of São Paulo (2001 – 2005); senator (2011 – 2015); Minister of Tourism in the second Lula government (2007 – 2008) and Minister of Culture in the government of former president Dilma Rousseff (2012 – 2014).
Upon leaving the PT in April 2015, he delivered a letter to the party's municipal, state and national leadership, in which he stated that the party was a repeat offender in cases of ethical misconduct.
“It is public knowledge that the Workers' Party has been the protagonist of one of the biggest corruption scandals that the Brazilian nation has ever experienced, and it is certain that even after the conviction of senior leaders, new episodes have occurred involving its national leadership”, he stated, indirectly referring to the monthly allowance, revealed in 2005, during the Lula government, and the corruption scandal at Petrobras, uncovered in 2014, during the Dilma government.
After leaving the PT, Marta supported the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff
Five months after leaving the PT, Marta joined the MDB and defended the impeachment of Dilma, whose minister she served between 2012 and 2014. One day before the Senate voted to revoke the PT member's mandate in 2016, the former mayor delivered a bouquet of flowers for jurist Janaina Paschoal, one of the authors of the request.
The then senator's vote was one of the 55 that determined Dilma's departure from the Planalto Palace. “In politics, when you see the parliamentary base it has, when you see the inability for dialogue it has and the situation in which Brazil has 11 million unemployed people, it is not at all difficult to see that there is no way to stay another two years in a person who no longer has the condition”, stated Marta in a press conference in the Senate during the impeachment process.
As shown by the EstadãoMarta's stance at the time means that the PT's considered most radical wing does not view the former mayor's return favorably.
For the MDB, she ran for Mayor of São Paulo in 2016, coming in fourth place with 587,220 votes (10.14% of valid votes). The winner of that election was João Doria, then a member of the PSDB.
Marta refused to run for the Senate in 2018 and left the MDB
In 2018, Marta was considered to run for re-election to the Senate by the MDB, but the then parliamentarian gave up running for public office and left the party. At the time, she stated that political parties were unable to provide “answers to the crisis of credibility that has befallen them”.
Between April 2015 and the end of 2018, Marta filed 17 bills. None of the proposals in the period were approved, and four are still being processed in Congress. Two of them have been under an emergency regime for almost seven years: one intends to change the reimbursement of health plans in the Unified Health System (SUS) and another classifies the crime of sexual molestation in the Penal Code.
An ally of Bruno Covas, Marta became Secretary at City Hall
When she left the MDB, Marta declared that she would continue in public life, but working in civil society. In 2020, aiming to have a place as vice-president on the ticket of former mayor Bruno Covas (PSDB), she joined Solidariedade. However, the new party decided to support Márcio França (PSB), and the former senator left the third party within five years.
In the second round of elections that year, contested by Covas and Boulos, Marta was used as an asset against her likely running mate in October of this year. Eight days before the election, the former mayor paraded in a motorcade through the outskirts of São Paulo asking for votes for the PSDB candidate.
The good relationship with the toucan earned Marta the head of the Secretariat of International Relations in the administration of São Paulo, a position she has held since January 2021. She remained in the management of the current head of the São Paulo Executive, Ricardo Nunes (MDB), after the death of Covas.
In the 2022 elections, Marta supported Lula against former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL). The former senator has already called the former president a “psychopath” and her aversion is one of the reasons for her to return to the PT and side with Boulos. Nunes will have Bolsonaro's support in October's municipal election and Marta does not want to share the platform with him.
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