Finance Minister Fernando Haddad should “lead President Lula’s program in São Paulo,” says the coordinator of the PT’s newly created Electoral Action Group and government leader in the chamber, José Guimarães (CE). “He is our main political leader,” he explains.
Haddad was resisting leaving the ministry to become a candidate, but he heard increasingly urgent calls from his allies to run for the Sao Paulo government or the Senate.
According to Guimarães, Lula needs strong programs in the three main states: São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais. At the moment, the Rio de Janeiro case is the only one in full swing, with the nomination of the city’s mayor, Eduardo Paes (PSD), the front-runner in the election.
In Minas Gerais, the name championed by Lula is that of Senator Rodrigo Pacheco (PSD), another person resisting the project.
Guimarães says that after the president’s re-election, the party’s priority for 2026 is to increase the seats of federal senators and representatives. He himself intends to run for the Senate in Ceará. “We need to stop the far-right majority, because it is hurting the country,” he says.
In 2026, the party wants to reshape the broad front for the 2022 elections, and still dreams of supporting centrist parties such as the MDB, PSD and Republicans, although this possibility is now remote. “What we know is that Lula’s front must be broader than just the left.”
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