Lula denies that he will act for Tabata’s withdrawal to help Boulos in the SP election – 01/30/2024 – Power

President Lula (PT) denied this Tuesday (30) that he will take the initiative for federal deputy Tabata Amaral (PSB-SP) to give up her pre-candidacy for Mayor of São Paulo to support Guilherme Boulos (PSOL) .

“I would never try to corrupt her with a position [no governo] to not be a candidate for mayor. She knows what she can do, she has a sense of what São Paulo is. If she wants to be a candidate for mayor, she will be a candidate for mayor (…) It is not President Lula who will stop it”, said the president

“We need to defeat Bolsonarism in São Paulo”, he concluded in a morning interview with CBN Recife radio.

At the weekend, the Panel column, from Sheetreported that a direct attack by the president to try to convince Tabata to give up is taken for granted among Lula’s entourage and at the top of the PSB.

One of the possibilities discussed among the president’s allies would be an invitation for Tabata to assume a ministry, which could be Science and Technology.

The department is led by Luciana Santos, who is from PC do B, one of the parties in the PT coalition, which could make the exchange less traumatic. Furthermore, this is an area of ​​interest and parliamentary activity for Tabata.

Lula adopted the strategy in 2022, when he asked Boulos and Márcio França (PSB) to abandon their pre-candidacies for the government of São Paulo to support Fernando Haddad (PT), who reached the second round with the support of both, but lost for Tarcísio de Freitas (Republicanos-SP).

In the capital, Tabata’s departure could, in theory, facilitate Lula’s attempt to transform the municipal dispute into a duel between him and Jair Bolsonaro (PL), whose support is sought by the current mayor, Ricardo Nunes (MDB).

Last week, Lula said that the election in São Paulo will be “a direct confrontation between the former president and the current president, it’s between me and the figure.”