This is the politician who will try to lead the left in Brazil in the absence of Lula

Ciro Gomes who hopes to become the leader of the Brazilian left in the presidential elections next October, gets the official support of his party but still finds it difficult to forge alliances and extend his appeal among the electors .

The Democratic Labor Party (PDT), was the first to support the candidate on Friday, which begins a series of party conventions that will describe a map of the electoral field of Brazil in the next two weeks

The former governor of the state of Ceará stands between the second and third place in various polls that exclude Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the former imprisoned president, whom he seeks to conquer the followers.

In the most uncertain election since Brazil's return to democracy in 1985, most candidates have trouble integrating allies.

Gomes, like many of his major rivals, arrives at his party's convention without a formula boyfriend a position normally offered to a coalition partner in exchange for support.

In recent weeks, Gomes has approached the right-wing party Democrats as well as the Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB). In an attempt to conquer Lula voters, he also sought out his running mate at the Workers Party, like the former mayor of Sao Paulo, Fernando Haddad.

However, Lula's party insists on supporting the former president as the only electoral option, despite the fact that it is likely to be banned from the candidate.

An impulsive temper that "scares" voters

"We have always wanted an alliance with the Workers Party; The problem is that most of its affiliates do not think so, "Andre Figueiredo, head of the PDT in the lower house, told Bloomberg.

" We have until August 5 to elect a candidate for vice -presidence and close alliances, then we give the parties the necessary time to make a decision. "

Another problem for Gomes is that his impulsive temperament and controversial economic proposals tend to frighten some of the Electorate and especially the financial market

He promised to repeal a 2017 law that liberalized the labor market and expropriated the oil fields that were recently submitted , the campaign promises that bothered business leaders.

In addition, he said that he would badyze the possibility of using part of Brazil's foreign exchange reserves for capitalizes r the country's development bank.

"This does not inspire confidence and it weakens their efforts to gain support," said Deysi Cioccari, a political scientist at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de São Paulo.

"It will take a lot of political marketing for to change the image of an annoyed man that Ciro Gomes generates," he said.