A week after taking over the Palácio dos Bandeirantes, governor Rodrigo Garcia (PSDB), a pre-candidate for reelection, set up an itinerant office with his secretariat to tour the interior. The objective is to increase his knowledge rate among São Paulo voters (85% do not know that he is the governor of São Paulo, according to a Datafolha survey released this Friday, 8) and to strengthen ties with the mayors, whom the toucan usually calls in private conversations.
With a different style from his predecessor, João Doria (PSDB), from whom he left, Garcia exchanged the big meetings with mayors at Palácio dos Bandeirantes for bus trips. The strategy is boosted by a R$ 1 billion program that distributes tractors, ambulances, trucks and other vehicles to the municipalities.
Trips follow a predefined script. While the governor leads a meeting of the secretariat with mayors in the visited city, technicians are divided into stands of a kind of political Poupatempo, where they receive representatives of municipal executives to catalog and unlock local demands.
The meeting always ends with a speech by the toucan after delivery of the vehicles that are part of the Nova Frota SP program. To avoid problems with the Electoral Justice, the budget of R$ 1 billion for the acquisition of more than 3 thousand vehicles and machinery is linked to last year’s budget.
After taking office, on April 1, and signing the term of office on a plastic table at the Bom Prato de Paraisópolis unit, Garcia moved with his family from his apartment in Jardins to the residential wing of the Palácio dos Bandeirantes, which was used by Doria only for lunch and dinner.
Style
Born in São José do Rio Preto, the new governor has been visiting the palace since he was 20, when he was an assistant to Mário Covas. His advisers say that his style is different from Doria’s and admit that the relationship between the two has shaken after the pre-candidate for the presidency threatened to give up leaving office on the 31st – and then back down.
Asked about this, Garcia is thrifty. “He is a candidate for the Presidency of the Republic and he is walking around Brazil while I am here taking care of São Paulo as governor,” he said.
Time
The only similarity with Doria is the rigidity with time of the secretaries’ speeches. “Whoever meets the time (two minutes) wins a chocolate, whoever fails to comply gets a fine”, said the governor at the meeting in Piracicaba this Friday, 8.
In the next stage, when he spoke in an auditorium, the governor knew the name of the mayors and remembered the works and demands of each city represented there, a performance that reminded Geraldo Alckmin. Of the five governors he worked with, the now ex-Tucano is the one who has been Garcia’s “boss” for the longest time.
Another similarity to Alckmin is his moderate and cautious speech. Despite the euphoria behind the scenes with the result of the Datafolha poll, in which he appeared with 11% of voting intentions in the scenario without Márcio França (PSB), Garcia refused to talk about the election in the quick interview with the local press.
An aide to the governor, however, said that “it is logical” that the group was happy with the result of the poll, as it shows that he has the least rejection and ample room to increase his rate of knowledge among voters.
Regarding the election, Garcia only made an exception when asked about former minister Tarcísio de Freitas (Republicans), with whom he appeared tied in the poll. “We had a vertiginous drop in federal investments in the state in all areas. A war has been established that is bad for São Paulo. São Paulo went to the end of the line,” he said.
At the end of the agenda, Garcia found himself in a dilemma before moving on to the next city. He was convinced to go to a traditional restaurant with assistants and the mayor of Piracicaba, Luciano Almeida (UB). The pre-candidate complained that he would have preferred to have spent more time taking selfies and talking to mayors.
The information is from the newspaper. The State of São Paulo.
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