Salles gives up the mayoral election: ‘The centrão won’ – 06/05/2023 – Politics

Federal Deputy Ricardo Salles (PL) announced this Monday (5th) that he has given up running for the São Paulo City Hall election next year. “The center won and the right lost,” he told Sheet. “I wasn’t the one who gave up, they gave up on me”.

The decision, anticipated by the newspaper O Globo, comes after having criticized the leader of his party, Valdemar Costa Neto, for gestures of approximation with Mayor Ricardo Nunes (MDB), who would be his rival in the election. Salles saw his plan to run with the support of former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) threatened.

Last Friday (2), Nunes stood on stage alongside Bolsonaro and Governor Tarcísio de Freitas (Republicans) at a military ceremony in the capital of São Paulo.

It was the mayor’s second public appearance with the former president. The previous one took place at the beginning of last month, during an event of the PL in the Legislative Assembly. On the occasion, the two also attended a lunch.

This Saturday (3), the former Minister of the Environment during the Bolsonaro administration first wrote on his Twitter profile: “Who walks with pigs, eats bran”.

Hours later, he published again, pointing out reasons that would be behind the intention of the PL wings to embark on the Nunes campaign.

Salles, who wanted to present himself as a representative of the right in the election, recalled that the current mayor did not declare support for Bolsonaro in the 2022 elections and has already stated in an interview that he will not be the candidate in that field.

“I’ll explain: Valdemar, through Rep. Antonio Carlos Rodrigues, former minister of Dilma [Rousseff] and the CURRENT link between the PL and the PT, it has 1 Secretariat and 2 subprefectures in the Nunes administration, which did not support Bolsonaro last year and even told Estadão that it did not want to be the right-wing candidate”, said the PL parliamentarian.