PL leader said lack of ‘nod’ from Tarcísio weighed on former president’s choice to support son Flávio Bolsonaro
The leader of the Liberal Party (PL) in the House, MP Sóstenes Cavalcante (PL-RJ), said that one of the reasons why former President Jair Bolsonaro decided to choose Senator Flavio Bolsonaro (PL-RJ) as his successor in the race for the presidency of the Republic it was the scenario of a lack of political winks from the governor of São Paulo, Tarcísio de Freitas (Republicans), towards 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, the federal deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro (PL-SP) said the governor is the “candidate the system wants” and said “a person of principle, seeing that they are keeping a person in a private prison just for their benefit in 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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