The leader of the Liberal Party (PL) in the House, Deputy Sóstenes Cavalcante (PL-RJ), said that one of the reasons why former President Jair Bolsonaro decided to choose Senator Flávio Bolsonaro (PL-RJ) as his successor in the race for President of the Republic was the lack of political winks from São Paulo Governor Tarcísio de Freitas (Republicans) to the former president and the party.
According to Sóstenes, the absence of clearer alignment gestures from Tarcísio weighed on the decision of Bolsonaro, who chose to focus his support on his son and keep control of the electoral project within the PL.
“What is the gesture of rapprochement with the PL that Tarcísio is still making today?” The PL leader added: “In several conversations, President Bolsonaro has already asked Tarcísio to come to the PL. He never comes. And the president said that if he is not in the PL, he will not support him.”
These statements were made during a lunch with journalists this Monday 15 in Brasilia.
Sóstenes also said that a possible candidacy of Tarcísio by the Republicans would have a negative impact on the PL in the proportional elections. According to him, protest outside the party would reduce the party’s votes and force it to abandon its own candidacy for Planalto.
“He, candidate number 10 (Republican number), reduces the party’s vote to the federal party. Thus, among the Republicans, he hinders the PL, being a candidate for the presidency, and we must already give up our candidacy”, he said.
The PL leader did not guarantee that Bolsonaro could reverse the decision to appoint Flávio Bolsonaro, but said that Tarcísio’s possible affiliation with the party could be interpreted as a political gesture. “I can’t guarantee a withdrawal, but it’s a gesture,” he said.
This is not the first time that Tarcísio has been the target of criticism from the most Bolsonaro wing for not having made “winks” to the former president. In November, federal deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro (PL-SP) declared that the governor is the “candidate that the system wants” and said that “a person of principle, seeing that they keep a person in a private prison just to make him benefit from an election, should be the first to refuse the candidacy.” “Attachment to power destroys politicians. I do not agree with those who arrest the elderly and the innocent,” he declared at the time.
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