The PSDB leadership has made the re-election of Governor Rodrigo Garcia in Sao Paulo a national priority this year, while Joao Doria is still trying to prove himself in the presidential race. The Toucans reserve the most resources from the Abbreviation Electoral Fund among state executive candidates for Garcia. This will be 21 million reais, counting on maintaining power in the state ruled by the legend for 28 years and guaranteeing a national performance.

Garcia is a recently joined toucan – he made a political career in the former DEM, now União Brasil, as a result of the merger with PSL – and he needs to assert himself. Still underperforming in intent-to-vote polls, she trails Fernando Haddad (Portugal), supported by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and Tarcicio de Freitas (Republicans), appointed by President Jair Bolsonaro.

Garcia keeps the public machine to use the candidacy, but comes across as a wear and tear on Doria’s unpopularity. To remedy this situation, the PSDB will allocate to the candidate an amount equivalent to the ceiling set by the Electoral Court for the state. The current governor will receive much more than Doria four years ago, when he contested the Bandeirantes Palace and received 6.2 million reais from the party.

Not only the campaign in Sao Paulo will be marked by high numbers. According to the party’s strategic plan, the other two states commanded by the toucans, Rio Grande do Sul and Mato Grosso do Sul, will also have a limit: 9.1 million reais for the gauchos that can launch Eduardo Leite, who has gone to resignation with an eye on Planalto and 4.9 million reais for the residents of Mato Grosso do Sul, whose candidate is Eduardo Riedel, former secretary of the governor, Reinaldo Azambuja.

A total of nine candidates will be nominated for the post of head of the executive branch. In addition to Garcia, Leite and Riedel, Raquel Lira (PE), Pedro Cunha Lima (PB), Rodrigo Cunha (AL), Alessandro Vieira (SE), Izalchi Lucas (DF) and Silvestri Filho (PR) participate in regional competitions. These names will have fewer resources if Doria is Planalto’s candidate, as the presidential campaign will cost 65 million reais out of the 314 million reais of the Tucano Electoral Fund. In 2018, it amounted to 185.8 million reais. Geraldo Alkmin, then presidential candidate, received 53.6 million reais from the legend.

RESISTANCE

In an attempt to reduce the resistance of the PSDB bench in the House of Doria, allies of the former governor in the executive say that the 22 mandated federal deputies will receive a ceiling set for proportional disputes: 2.4 million reais. In theory, this measure will dispel rumors that a presidential campaign will drain resources.

However, much of the bench put pressure on the former governor to abandon Planalto. At a dinner in Brasilia last Wednesday at the home of the Toucan leader in the Chamber of Adolfo Vian (BSc), deputies gave Doria a truce but showed skepticism about the presidential project.

In the case of São Paulo, Garcia’s allies say the problem with Doria’s candidacy is political and strategic: a high number of rejections could pollute a re-election campaign that will need voters from the Bolsonarist belt to make it to the second round, so there is pressure to withdraw participation. from Doria to the state. “The question is not financial. The candidacy of Joao Doria is taking away votes from Rodrigo Garcia in an election that will no longer be easy,” said former Toucan Senator José Anibal (SP).

Staffers linked to Garcia but close to Doria argue that the PSDB should make the campaign for governor of Sao Paulo a major controversy. In a nationwide campaign, they say, the party has no chance of winning, and persistence in the name will exacerbate internal divisions.

THIRD COPY

Possible PSDB support for Senator Simone Tebet (MDB-MS) does not interfere with the São Paulo campaign, according to party sources. Garcia’s survival in Bandeirantes is seen as decisive for the political future of the party, which is in ruins and has lost the capacity for national organization during the rise of Bolsonaris.

The Tucanos say it’s good to have a candidate at the head of Sao Paulo who is far from both Bolsonaro and Lula, and they intend to convince voters that this will serve as a system of checks and balances for Planalto, whoever wins. . Wanted, Garcia declined to comment.

“Rodrigo Garcia will win the elections in Sao Paulo. At the national level, the party is promoting its commitment to Brazilian democracy by putting forward important candidacies in the states and fundamentally building a third path, where the PSDB represents João Doria,” said Marco Vinoli, PSDB-SP President and Coordinator of the Former Governor’s Electoral Campaign.

Trying to break the impasse, Doria continues to work at an intense pace. He has already received 2.8 million reais from the PSDB and supplemented his cash with donations from individuals. The election campaign of the ex-governor is the most structured of the third path. He uses chartered jets to travel, and his committee in São Paulo now has 25 members.

The information is taken from the newspaper. State of Sao Paulo.