Costa Neto says that PL did not split and that he was wrong to invite Tarcísio to the meeting

The president of the PL, Valdemar Costa Neto, said this Tuesday (11) that the party did not split when it failed to close the issue on the vote on the tax reform in the Chamber of Deputies, last week. The caption, which should vote against the project following the guidance of former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL), had 20 votes in favor of the 99 deputies that make up the bench.

That day, the party met in the morning to define the direction it would take in the vote, and invited the governor of São Paulo, Tarcísio de Freitas (Republicans), to participate and make a “contribution” to the discussion. However, the meeting turned into an argument between the politician and deputies and led to an intervention by Bolsonaro, who said that the ally “lacks political experience”.

Costa Neto says that he invited Tarcísio to “give prestige to the bench”, but some deputies understood the opposite, that he wanted to convince them to vote in favor of the reform. “I made a mistake,” he said in an interview with GloboNews.

“He went there to explain what he had to explain about the reform, because Tarcísio is very diligent, he knew the semicolon of the reform”, said the president of the PL.

The argument between the governor and the bench raised suspicions that the party would have split between an opposition party and another that would support the government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT). The possibility was only suspected, and Costa Neto confirmed that the “PL is in opposition”.

Costa Neto also stated that Bolsonaro did not intervene “in a bad way” by saying that Freitas has no political experience, but that this is “his style, which is different from everyone else’s” of expressing himself. “Bolsonaro loves Tarcísio,” he added.

Days later, Bolsonaro and Tarcísio met again at the party’s headquarters, in Brasília, and left laughing. The president of the PL also confirmed that the party is right-wing and conservative, and that projects that go against moral values ​​will be voted against.