"Our support will be for President Lula," says Paulo Câmara, governor of Pernambuco for the PSB party. "There is no obstacle to that."
A proponent of the national alliance with the PT (Workers' Party), Câmara is trying to recreate the Popular Front of Pernambuco: "it was important for my re-election, it will be again now."
247 - The governor of Pernambuco, Paulo Câmara (PSB), who is serving his eighth year in office, does not intend to leave his post to run for any office in 2022 and believes that broad unity on the left is necessary against what he defines as the "greater evil": a possible reelection of Jair Bolsonaro. He strongly advocates for an alliance between his party, the PSB, and the PT of former president Lula in the first round – whether or not there is a Party Federation.
“Our support will be for President Lula. There is no obstacle to that,” he said this Tuesday morning to journalists Luís Costa Pinto and Eumano Silva on the program Sua Excelência, O Fato, broadcast live on TV 247. “No issue regarding the national succession will interfere in our local discussions. We will give our full support to Lula in Pernambuco and, obviously, we want to re-establish the Popular Front with the PT. It helped me in my re-election in 2018.” The statement is at the 50:30 mark of the video with the full program (link at the end of this text).
According to the governor of Pernambuco, a potential alliance between the PSB and the PT to support Lula transcends even the affiliation of the former governor of São Paulo, Geraldo Alckmin, to the socialist party. “We never considered the vice-presidency a necessity for us to ally with Lula,” he explained in the interview. “President Lula was always presented with the condition that he see how we would be stronger for the 2022 election. If Alckmin is the vice-presidential candidate for the PSB, I am enthusiastic. He was invited and will be welcome. This is a ticket that excites many sectors.”
At the 25-minute mark of the program, Câmara warns that "Brazil is already regressing too much" during these three years of Jair Bolsonaro's government. And that, if he is re-elected, if there is this risk, "we will reach a dangerous process of destabilization in all areas and there will be institutional damage that we cannot allow."
Here is a link to the full program: