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Brasilia (EFE) .- The Brazilian Labor Party (19459008) today became the sixth formation to express its official support for Geraldo Alckmin the former governor of Sao Paulo who will run in the presidential elections of October as candidate for the party of the Brazilian Social-Democracy (PSDB)
The PTB, party with a representation average in the Congress and was an important ally of the governments of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (2003-2010) and Dilma Rousseff (2011-2016), announced his support for Alckmin at the national convention It took place this Saturday in Brasilia
The Labor Party members joined the five center parties that announced Thursday that they will support the PSDB candidate and that most of them will not be able to. among them were also allies of the Partid o de los . Workers (PT) During the As the Administrations of Lula and Rousseff
The first five to cheer on Alckmin, the candidate defeated by Lula in the second round of the 2006 presidential elections, was the Partido Popular (PP) Brazilian Republican Party (PRB) Party of the Republic (PR) Democrats (DEM) and Solidarity, who Have a Significant Weight in Congress
The Socialist People's Party ( PPS) the Green Party (PV) and the Social Democratic Party (19459008) are three other formations that plans to join this coalition in the coming days, which seeks to offer voters Brazilian a viable option as a center in the middle of a polarized dispute between Lula and the far right MP Jair Bolsonaro
"Alckmin will be the desert light that will guide us to the promised land , an honest man ublic who is neither an adventurer nor a populist nor a beginner, "badured the president of the PTB, Roberto Jefferson in his speech to the participants in the convention and in reference to Lula, who purges a sentence 12 years for corruption, and Bolsonaro, considered a mystery.
"Our country is divided by hatred, resentment, we must unite and pacify," responded Alckmin, who attended the convention, thanking Labor for their support and reinforcing his choice as a candidate for center of the current radicalization.
In addition to Roberto Jefferson, who promised a scandal of corruption that shamed Lula's government in 2005, the convention was followed by his daughter, MP Cristiane Brasil who made the # 39; object of investigation into another corruption case.
They also participated in quoting several of the PTB leaders who investigated irregularities in the Ministry of Labor, a portfolio that this training commissioned during the PT governments and also in that of the current president, ] Michel Temer
The PSDB, The party that ruled Brazil between 1995 and 2002 with Fernando Henrique Cardoso intends to formalize on August 4 the candidacy of Alckmin, president of training and which he ruled Sao Paulo, the most populous and wealthiest state in the country, for about eight years until last April.
Although the Social Democrat leader is only in fourth position in the polls to vote for the presidential elections. 4% favoritism, the creation of a broad coalition of parties to support his candidacy can help him to grow election and bring him to the second round of presidential elections.
This is because the support of several parties with major parliamentary groups will allow him to count with a record time of 14 minutes and 47 seconds in each block of free election propaganda in the radio and television networks. of national television, far above all its rivals.
Although polls are conducted by Lula, with about 33% of favoritism, the former president is virtually barred from contesting the elections because he was convicted in the second instance for corruption and has been imprisoned since April
Without Lula, the favorites are Bolsonaro, with 15% of the voting intentions, the environmentalist leader Marina Silva (7%) and the Labor Party Ciro Gomes (4% ). EFE (I)
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