Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will attend the session this Monday to form his campaign’s political council along with leaders from seven parties who have declared their support for his election candidacy.
Ex-governor Gerardo Alckmin, vice president in Lula’s duo for October’s election, will take part in the debate.
According to the Poder360 portal, the college in Sao Paulo will bring together representatives of the Workers’ Party (PT), the Brazilian Communist Party, the Brazilian Socialist Party, Solidarity, Socialism and Freedom, Greens and the Sustainability Network.
The groups with more executive functions of the campaign, such as communication and commitments, are derived from the electoral alliance around the founder of the PT.
The website assures that those present at Monday’s meeting will have to discuss the election scenario revealed by the polls, the coordination of the missionary crusade and Lula’s commitments as the PT’s presidential candidate.
In early June, he hints, the former president is due to go to Rio Grande do Sul and presumably Santa Catarina, two states where far-right leader Jair Bolsonaro, who wants re-election, has strong support, the polls say.
According to the source, it is also possible that the former mechanic will visit the North’s territorial divisions next month. At least Pará and Amazonas are on the itinerary.
Poder360 claims that the trips are important to the pre-campaign because “they grab the attention of local voters. There is media presence and mobilization of supporters and sympathizers in the cities.”
Lula concluded a tour to discuss political alliances for the right to vote on May 11 in the municipality of Juiz de Fora in the state of Minas Gerais (southeast).
It was in this district that the PT leader ended a three-day tour that included visits to Belo Horizonte, the capital of Minas Gerais, and the city of Coragem, where he explained that to govern it was necessary to think about the work people.
He repeated what he had said at the presentation of the movement “Let’s go together for Brazil”: “Government is only possible if you put your heart into it (…) It’s not about accounting, it’s about looking at the figures of the income and to look at expenses. In fact, with 215 million Brazilians who have to live with dignity, we have a social debt,” he added.
For the former union leader, the task of improving the country becomes easier from the moment politics is thought of from the bottom of the social pyramid, and then to the top.
The latest poll by company PoderData, a subsidiary of Poder360, shows the former president with a 42 percent preference versus 35 for Bolsonaro in the simulation of the first round of consultations scheduled for October 2.