Aécio reaffirms being Márcio Lacerda's "godfather".
The senator asserts that the current mayor of Belo Horizonte is his and the PSDB's creation, as they backed his candidacy in 2008 when he was still lagging in the polls. Demonstrating dissatisfaction with the unfolding of the renewed PSDB-PT-PSB alliance, Aécio also criticized the stance of the current vice-mayor of the capital, Roberto Carvalho (PT).
Mines 247 – Seeking to reinforce the importance of the PSDB in the mayoral elections in Belo Horizonte, Aécio Neves (PSDB) made a point of emphasizing the role of the party in the political rise of Mayor Márcio Lacerda (PSB). He revealed that he was responsible for bringing the current mayor into the political arena and that his party backed him in the 2008 election when Lacerda was still struggling in the polls.
The senator criticized the stance of the current deputy mayor of the capital, Roberto Carvalho (PT), stating that the PT member was an adversary and not an ally during Lacerda's four years in office.
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Senator Aécio Neves (PSDB-MG) considered the name of federal deputy Miguel Corrêa Júnior, chosen as the vice-presidential candidate on the ticket headed by the mayor of Belo Horizonte, Marcio Lacerda (PSB), to be "qualified". Lacerda will run for reelection with the support of the PT and PSDB, re-establishing a controversial alliance launched in 2008 by Aécio and the Minister of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade, Fernando Pimentel (PT).
“Regarding Belo Horizonte, the PT is making a decision, I don't yet know what the PSB's final decision will be, but Congressman Miguel Corrêa is a qualified name. That's not the most relevant thing for us. The most relevant thing is that Mayor Marcio Lacerda can have an ally as his vice-presidential candidate, regardless of party affiliation, and not an adversary, as he has had for the last four years,” he stated, referring to the current vice-mayor, Roberto Carvalho, a member of the PT, who advocates for the PT to field its own candidate.
By saying that he does not know what the final decision of the PSB is, this Wednesday (13), Aécio put in suspense whether Lacerda's party is really united around the PT and the PSDB in the capital of Minas Gerais. Speculation is growing that Aécio would be dissatisfied with the way the re-edition of the alliance has been conducted.
The PSDB, for example, had demanded that the PT's vice-presidential candidate have no political ambitions. It's no secret that Corrêa, chosen on Sunday at a PT meeting, intends to pursue higher positions in the executive branch. Meanwhile, Lacerda's PSB, led by the governor of Pernambuco, Eduardo Campos, has been at odds with the PT after intervening to allow Senator Humberto Costa to run for mayor of Recife.
Aécio made a point of clarifying in an interview in the federal capital that he played an important role in Lacerda's victorious candidacy in 2008. He said that it was he, Aécio, who was responsible for bringing the current mayor back into public life, as secretary during his second term. "I consider Marcio Lacerda, the candidate for mayor of Belo Horizonte, a political ally from the very beginning. Especially since we were the ones who brought him back into public life, when I invited him to be our Secretary of Economic Development and when we launched his candidacy for mayor of Belo Horizonte, with the support of then-mayor Pimentel."
Amidst the territorial demarcation regarding Marcio Lacerda, Aécio took the opportunity to criticize the PT (Workers' Party) and its way of governing, because, according to the senator from the PSDB (Brazilian Social Democracy Party), the PT members always move in the direction of "the politicization of the public machine and inefficiency, which we are witnessing today, including at the federal level."