On the eve of the electoral year, the president of the Agricultural Parliamentary Front (FPA), federal deputy Pedro Lupion (Republicanos-PR), sees “a good part” of the sector maintaining a position different from that of the current government of the President of the Republic, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, during the presidential election of 2026. “We are indeed seeking a consensus in relation to the development of the sector, concerning the problems of work, logistics, internal development of the country. of someone who has this pro-development agenda for the country, and not a single agenda, exclusively of well-being and perpetuation of power,” said Lupion in an exclusive interview with Agro-diffusionGrupo Estado’s real-time information system. “I understand that a large part of the sector will continue to have a different position from that of the current government and that we will be extremely united in the next candidacy,” he projected.
Lupion defends a center-right unity project for the 2026 elections in opposition to the Lula government. “All those who generate income in the country and who make Brazil develop and grow, in addition to the agricultural sector, have an agenda contrary to that of the current government, which taxes everything, which seeks to collect more every day and which has a gigantic electoral agenda thinking all the time about assistance. All this costs the country and creates a generation that depends exclusively on the State”, he criticized.
In 2022, the FPA publicly supported the re-election bid of former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL). Asked about possible support for the Bolsonaro family candidate or right-wing governor, Lupion defended the search for a consensual name between the agricultural sector and the center-right. “It’s not about supporting the Bolsonaro family or not. President Bolsonaro is the greatest leader the Brazilian right has ever had or has with undeniable influence and relevance,” he said.
The consensus name defended by Lupion is, according to him, a candidate capable of winning the elections and competing with the re-election project of the current government. “There is a wonderful group of governors, with very high approval ratings, like Governor Tarcísio, who has the conditions to be a viable candidate, Governor Ratinho Júnior (PSD-PR), Governor Ronaldo Caiado (União-GO), Governor Romeu Zema (Novo-MG), Governor Eduardo Leite (PSD-RS), Senator Flávio Bolsonaro (PL-RJ). I want a unitary ticket for win the elections,” he stressed.
Among the possible right-wing presidential candidates, Lupion sees the conditions for massive support from agro-industry for a possible candidacy of Governor Tarcísio de Freitas (Republicanos-SP). “This means exactly what we stand for: the ability to put entrepreneurship back on the agenda, to reduce the size of the state, to demonstrate competitiveness through meritocracy, to invest in the country, to think about big solutions and above all to think long term. It is a different economic model from the one that exists,” explained Lupion.
While public security is considered one of the main objectives of the population next year, the leader of the agricultural judiciary considers legal security to be an “extremely important” objective for the sector.
Lupion also sees a trend toward greater tension between Congress and the Executive and greater agenda blocking next year. “As it is an election year, I think things will be a little more complicated. The reaction of President Davi Alcolumbre (União-AP) of respect for the institutional role of the National Congress must be taken seriously, because it is extremely brutal,” said the president of the Agricultural Chamber, citing a document sent by the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate to the Federal Supreme Court requesting compliance with the calendar law after the new demarcations of indigenous lands made by the Executive. “There is a consortium with a government leader in the Supreme Court, Minister Flávio Dino, who only deals with the government’s agenda. Anything that the government cannot overcome, it judicializes,” he asserts.
For the rural leader, the tension between Congress and the judiciary also tends to persist next year. “The Supreme Court is focused on a political fight. As long as it embodies the fight, we will not be able to advance any agenda,” he said.
As for the future of the front itself, which has become the most numerous and one of the most influential seats in Congress with 353 parliamentarians, Lupion believes in the expansion of the FPA, particularly in the Senate, which will renew two-thirds of the college of senators. “The Senate has an extremely important role in the balance of powers in the Republic, the independence of powers and the moderation of the role of each person. We have all the conditions to have a majority of these two thirds,” noted the president of the FPA.
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