@LulaOfficial The Workers’ Party (PT) and the Socialist Party of Brazil (PSB) this Friday made official the formula for the presidential candidacy of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Geraldo Alckmin during the congress of the latter formation in the southern hotel sector of Brazil .
The electoral formula, which according to all polls will prevail as the favorite for the next elections, was approved unanimously and in the presence of both candidates, MPs from both parties and other political parties forming the coalition supporting former President Lula.
In this sense, the national president of the PSB, Carlos Siqueira, avoided the announcement that “in the name of simplicity, discretion, competence and capacity of Governor Geraldo Alckmin will form the Vice-Presidency of the Republic with President Luiz Inacio Lula von Silva”.
For his part, Lula acknowledged the support of the signers of the Manifesto for Democracy, which already has nearly 400,000 signatures and will be read on August 11 at the USP Law School in Largo de São Francisco, downtown São Paulo.
He added: “I never imagined that at 76 years old and with more than 50 years of membership in the trade union movement and parties, I would see a President of the Republic lying to the ambassadors and misrepresenting the notion that the Brazilian democracy is endangered by electronic ballot boxes, the idea that these elections will be stolen,” referring to President Jair Bolsonaro’s maneuvers in attempting to boycott the elections.
“This country will only thrive if it grows back to create more jobs and better wages,” Lula said while slamming the current executive branch for worsening hunger and unemployment in this South American country.
While Alckmin said: “It’s about time Bolsonaro left. Your time is up. Their ideas and their concepts do not serve the country. His lies don’t hold anymore. His cunning plan against democracy has failed. And the ballot box will cleanse Brazil of all the evil it has done.”
Meanwhile, PCdoB deputy Jandira Feghali, vice-president, said of the Lula Alckmin union that “it was a construction that expresses the maturity of all these parties at this moment in which we live. It’s not an easy moment, it’s not an easy moment, but it took an open mind, an expansive mind to build that unity, which more than anything else is a necessity for Brazil and for those who have love for our and our people Country.”
During the appointment it emerged that Andreia Nunes decided to withdraw her candidacy to express her support for the Lula Alckmin formula; as well as various political sectors and Congress, which for their part have expressed their dissatisfaction with the decisions and attitudes of the current head of state, Jair Bolsonaro.