Alliance with PT in cities in the Northeast will be an exception, says leader of the PL

The leader of the Liberal Party (PL) in the Chamber, deputy Altineu Côrtes (PL-RJ), admitted the possibility of exceptional cases in which his party will have to make an alliance with the Workers’ Party (PT) in the next elections, mainly, in cities in the Northeast. Citing situations in which this should occur due to local circumstances, the deputy highlighted that any alliances with the PT will not hinder the opposition of the PL to the current government.

“We are an opposition party to the current government, but this electoral issue is obvious. You arrive in a municipality in the Northeast, Maranhão or Bahia, sometimes you only have one candidate in the municipality. That happens. This happened in more than one hundred cities in Brazil in the last election. So, all the parties end up staying together, but there will be no convergence in 99.9% of the cases between the PL and the PT because the parties’ projects are divergent”, said the deputy during an interview with Jornal da Manhã da Jovem Pan, this Monday. -Friday (4).

As reported by People’s Gazette last week, in the resolution published by the PT for the 2024 municipal elections, the party left open the possibility of alliances with parties outside the “broad front” that elected Lula in 2022.

When commenting on the subject, PT’s communication secretary, Jilmar Tatto, also confirmed the possibility of alliances with the PL.

“If the candidate for mayor declares that he will be with us in 2026, even if he is in the PL, it is allowed”, he said in an interview with the newspaper Folha de São Paulo, last Thursday (31).