“I am running for the Senate,” says Benedetta da Silva about the race in Rio policy

Plans have already been made for the 2026 election of federal representative Benedetta da Silva (PT-RJ). If it came down to it, she would be a Senate candidate. The 83-year-old representative indicates that she has already informed the party of her desire to return to the Senate, where she held a seat between 1995 and 1998, and that she no longer wishes to run for the Senate, where she has been since 2011.

“I don’t want to, I’m running for federal senator from the Labor Party,” Benedetta said on Monday (1).

The representative continued: “I have already discussed with the party that I will no longer be a candidate for the position of federal representative, but rather a candidate for the Senate. I think this is good for me,” stressing that she achieved good results in voting intentions surveys.

On Monday, Benedetta participated in a seminar on public security in Rio de Janeiro. Despite the representative’s statements, the party’s wings in the country oppose the presence of the parliamentarian in the dispute over the Senate.

The greatest frequency revolves around the head of the Workers’ Party in Rio de Janeiro, Diego Zidane, and his father, Washington Cuoa, mayor of Marica and national vice president of the party. They prefer to nominate a name closer to their political group.

Benedetta, in turn, downplays the differences. “When it comes to the Labor Party, we always have someone who has another candidate,” he said.

“Internally, we discuss, discuss, and review candidates, and the person who is most qualified, in terms of the policy and platform of the party, is the one who will be (the nominee). After the hammer goes down, it strikes. There is no question of majority or minority. We go out to campaign.”

According to Benedetta, the Senate is one of the Labor Party’s priorities in next year’s elections.

He said: “I am very calm, especially since the Labor Party’s occupation of the Senate is part of the party’s strategy to have a greater number of Labor representatives in the Federal Senate, knowing the future confrontations that we will have to face, both as a government and within the legislature.”

“But it is not only due to research, it is due to politics. With Lula’s re-election, we believe that we will need (to obtain more seats in Congress), both in the House of Representatives and in the Senate,” he added.