Boulos asks for awareness about rivals after confrontation with Tabata – 09/29/2024 – Power

Guilherme Boulos, the PSOL candidate for Mayor of São Paulo, said this Sunday (29) that “people have to be aware” that there are two Bolsonaro names with a chance of winning the election.

He was referring to the verbal duel he had the day before with Tabata Amaral (PSB), the opponent who harassed him in the TV Record debate about retreating from past positions. More specifically, the defense of drug decriminalization and resistance to labeling Venezuela as a dictatorship, points diluted in this final stretch of the campaign.

“We are facing the last week of an election where we are facing two Bolsonarists. People have to be aware and understand the gravity of what this represents for the city of São Paulo”, he said when questioned by Sheet about the confrontation with Tabata, a potential ally if he goes to the second round.

The psolist is in a technical tie with Ricardo Nunes (MDB) in the lead, with Pablo Marçal (PRTB) placed in third, the Bolsonarists he alluded to, according to the latest Datafolha survey, while the deputy comes in a distant fourth place, tied up with José Luiz Datena (PSDB).

Boulos repeated the strategy of treating mayor and influencer as two sides of the same Bolsonaro coin. He did not want to say which of them he would prefer to face if he goes to the second electoral stage.

Marçal represents “this more violent Bolsonarism, and Nunes, the Bolsonarism that tries to sell itself as moderate, civilized, but is someone who said that January 8th was not an attempted coup.”

The PSOL federal deputy compromised the lack of more street events with Lula (PT) in his campaign. Seen as the ticket’s biggest electoral leader, the president canceled an agenda with Boulos this weekend. So far, he has only participated in one event with the candidate that made the PT give up its own candidacy for the first time in the capital of São Paulo, to support him.

Lula, Boulos pointed out, made recordings with him. He must also appear at an event on the eve of the election. “And the only campaign he carried out activities in all of Brazil was ours.” A rally in Campo Limpo, the neighborhood where the psolist lives.

Boulos chose Brasilândia (northern São Paulo) to make a motorcade a week before the election. His deputy, Marta Suplicy (PT), accompanied him.

He posed with candidates for councilor from his coalition and jumped with characters from a generic Carreta Furacão: Mário Bros, Tartaruga Ninja, Chaves and company. It didn’t draw crowds along the route, but it excited some residents along the way, who waved effusively back. One or the other made the M with their hands, Marçal’s symbol in this electoral race.