Márcio França again calls for Tarcísio's resignation: "Don't humiliate the people of São Paulo"

247 - In a new attack against the governor of São Paulo, Tarcísio de Freitas (Republicanos), the Minister of Entrepreneurship, Microenterprise and Small Business, Márcio França (PSB), once again publicly called for the resignation of his political opponent. 

The statement was made in a video recorded this Friday (18), in reaction to a recent publication by the governor on social media. The information is from FSP.

Tarcísio had defended “free, fair, and competitive elections” and criticized a “succession of errors,” suggesting that Brazil is moving away from the path to social peace. “There will be no pacification until we find the path to balance,” he wrote. The demonstration comes a week after US President Donald Trump imposed tariffs on Brazil—a measure that was politically exploited by the Bolsonaro family—and on the same day that Jair Bolsonaro became the target of a new Federal Police operation.

For Márcio França, Tarcísio's stance is an affront to the people of São Paulo. “If he can't withstand the pressure from the [Bolsonaro] family, he should resign. Don't humiliate the people of São Paulo with this subservience to lost and indefensible causes,” the minister declared. According to him, the governor's text is “one of the most shameful and humiliating things a leader of the people of São Paulo could have written.”

França, who is a pre-candidate for the Palácio dos Bandeirantes (São Paulo state government headquarters), harshly criticized Tarcísio's statement: "He, once again, subservient to his family and without any notion of the magnitude of his role, affirms and threatens us all that there will be no peace in Brazil without free and fair elections."

The minister also questioned the legitimacy of Tarcísio's speech, recalling that the current governor was elected without historical ties to São Paulo: “How so, Tarcísio? You were elected without ever having truly lived on the sacred land of the Bandeirantes. You don't know São Paulo, nor Martins, Miragaia, Draúsio, and Camargo. And yet, you were always respected.” The names mentioned refer to the four students killed in the Constitutionalist Revolution of 1932.

The French critic also mocks the governor's alignment with US policy and former President Trump, who imposed trade sanctions on Brazil: "We respect the United States, but we are not Americans. Our president is not Trump. We don't speak English, nor do we call cookies biscuits."

A week ago, França had already called for Tarcísio's resignation following the tariff hike announced by Trump, arguing that the governor had "campaigned" for the Republican.

This Friday, the Federal Police launched a new operation authorized by Minister Alexandre de Moraes of the Supreme Federal Court, as part of a sealed investigation related to an attempted coup d'état. Bolsonaro, accused of attempting to subvert the democratic order, is now being monitored with an electronic ankle bracelet 24 hours a day.