Alckmin and PSDB-SP boycott Aécio Neves.
In a speech at the PPS congress, the governor and state president of the PSDB, Duarte Nogueira, did not mention the candidacy of the senator from Minas Gerais in 2014; this "neutrality" aims to maintain support for Campos, from the PSB, in his alliance for reelection.
247 - The governor of São Paulo, Geraldo Alckmin (PSDB), decided not to interrupt the alliance between the PPS and the PSB, of Eduardo Campos, with an eye on his reelection in 2014. At the congress of Roberto Freire's party, Alckmin and the state president of the PSDB, Duarte Nogueira, did not ask for support for the PSDB presidential candidate Aécio Neves.
The name of the senator from Minas Gerais was not even mentioned, according to Vera MagalhãesFrom Folha de S. Paulo: "By not opposing the pro-Campos strategy, Alckmin hopes to have the PSB in his reelection alliance," the note says.
In officially endorsing Eduardo Campos, Freire said that the indication of an alliance between PPS and PSB points to a movement by the "democratic left," with the goal of developing a "development project for the country."