In an interview with CNN This Thursday (17), Maranana Governor Flavio Dino (no party) assessed that the political center has not yet gathered sufficient conditions to nominate a presidential nominee in 2022 that is competitive and has real conditions for victory. For a politician leaving PCdoB to join public television, “this centrist, liberal, democratic project has not yet been presented.”
This weakness in the center, according to Dino, allows Luis Inacio Lula da Silva of the PT and President Jair Bolsonar (non-partisan) to act as protagonists in the 2022 elections. Despite this, the governor hopes for a third way.
“I hope that it is possible, yes, to form this alternative, called the center, in a third way. I think this will ennoble the election debate next year, and I believe that it will save us from the possibility of Bolsonaro participating in the second round, ”he said.
“Another Way” PT
Both the PCdoB, from which he is leaving, and the PSB, where he is going, have recently closed electoral unions led by PT. Asked about the possibility that SOV is paving its own path, separated from Lula, Flavio Dino said that his new party represented “a different path, but not antinomic, not contrary” to Lula’s political project.
For Dino, PT and PSB “represent two complementary axes in favor of a fairer Brazil, Brazil with sovereignty, independence”, without “subordination” in the relationship between subtitles. “Respecting autonomy, but striving for union,” he stressed.
Governor Maranhao also said that Lula “was, is and will remain a very important leader for Brazil in the next few years,” with whom he maintains dialogue and who currently plays a coordinating role in the political sphere. called Dino from Popular National Field.
Flavio Dino also explained the reasons why he left PCdoB, to which he was associated, and announced that he would move to PSB. According to Dino, the downward trend in the number of political parties in Brazil was weighed as the article on barriers advanced, a measure that requires subtitles to gradually increase the number of votes in order to have access to advertising time on radio and television, as well as public money. for your campaigns.
The movement ends up encouraging the worst-performing electoral subtitles to explore mergers with other parties to avoid the impact of the barrier clause.
According to the governor, today the PSB has the best conditions to be “the element of attraction, agglutination and stronger convergence that Brazil needs right now.” “I believe that this movement of mergers, federations, unions is a very strong trend, and this became the determining factor for the decision I made today,” he explained.
Dino said that he has been in dialogue with PSB for many years and stated that he is “very grateful” to PCdoB. The politician, now nominated as a potential Senate candidate in 2022, now appears as a deputy on the lists of candidates for the presidency of the republic, and has also stated that he is determined to support the candidacy of federal deputy Marcelo Freixo for the government of Rio de Janeiro.
Freikso announced last week that he is leaving PSOL, the party in which he built his political career, and has also joined the PSB. As with Dino, the opportunity for Freixo to reach a broader political alliance in PSB, making him more competitive in majoritarian elections, as in the case of the state government, put pressure on Freycho.
