Bolsonaro relies on local leaders for the second round, while Lula takes Tebet's support for granted

MADRID, 5 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, is focusing his strategy on relying on conservative state leaders to collect the votes that are missing for the second round on October 30, while Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, already supported by the PDT and a Ciro Gomes reluctantly, is waiting for the foreseeable alliance with Simone Tebet to also become official.

In recent hours, Bolsonaro has received the support of the re-elected governors of Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro, Romeu Zema and Claudio Castro, respectively, as well as the still head of government of Sao Paulo, Rodrigo Garcia, who will not be able to revalidate his mandate after come third in the election.

However, the support of the Government of Sao Paulo does not seem to be in doubt for Bolsonaro because everything suggests that it will be his former Minister of Infrastructure, Tarcísio de Freitas, who will ratify in the second round the result he obtained in the first against the PT proposal. , Fernando Haddad.

It should be noted that Bolsonaro came out of the first round with some six million votes less than Lula da Silva. The most hopeful forecasts for the leader of the extreme right in Brazil is to achieve at least three million thanks to the support of Zema, Castro and Garcia, while the other half would have to go looking for it in the northeastern regions, where Lula has some of his main strongholds.

The ambitious aspirations of Bolsonaro, for example in Minas Gerais, can come face to face with the reality that was revealed in that state after the first round, where Lula was the most voted option, recovering spaces even in areas where the right traditionally has a ballot box.

For his part, the candidate of the Workers' Party (PT) and former president of Brazil trusts in the support swindled by the Democratic Labor Party (PDT) in the first round and those that the candidate of the Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB) may bring with him. Simone Tebet, to return to the Planalto Palace more than twenty years later.

The senator of the MDB, the third option of the Brazilians in the elections, will make her support for Lula official no later than this Thursday, according to what the Brazilian press has been advancing, which also reports that Tebet could share with Lula an act in which formalize this new national alliance for the second round.

The tone is undoubtedly more media than what the MDB expected. The formation has two very different currents, with the north and northeast supporting Lula and the south and west center opting for Bolsonaro, which is likely to free its affiliates and voters to opt for their favorite candidate.

The neutrality of the MDB is a way of avoiding a gap within the party, since no consensus has been reached when it comes to supporting one of the candidates. Tebet, who already declared at the time that he would reject an agreement with Bolsonaro, had a telephone conversation with Lula in the last few hours. It remains to be seen whether she will share campaign events with him, or give her support in a "critical" way.