Armando strengthens alternative candidacy.
A senator from the PTB party reaffirmed this Monday (21), one day after the PT primaries, that the parties forming the alternative bloc (PTB, PDT, PP, PSC and PV) need to launch their own candidate; for the parliamentarian, the PT members lost the conditions to launch a single candidacy in the Popular Front.
Raphael Coutinho _PE247 – Senator Armando Monteiro Neto (PTB-PE) wasted no time and spoke out this Monday (21) about the result of the primaries held by the PT this Sunday (20). According to the parliamentarian, the crisis in the PT reinforces the feeling of an alternative candidacy by the PTB, PDT, PP, PSC and PV, parties that also make up the Popular Front. “The PT loses the conditions to offer the Popular Front, and Recife, a candidacy”, he said during an interview with Rádio Jornal.
Armando justifies his statement by highlighting that he no longer sees the political conditions for João da Costa and Maurício Rands to position themselves before the Front, as they have not been able to build unity within the PT itself. "It is regrettable to see this saga end in such a traumatic way, that is, a party exposing its fractures, but more than that, a party that cannot even accept the result of the primaries, resorting to legal action," he criticized.
The senator also highlighted the lack of political support for the mayor, even within his own party. “I don’t mean to say I don’t accept (João da Costa’s victory), but I had already said that what justified the alternative candidacy was the observation that Mayor João da Costa, regardless of any personal assessment, had not managed to gather the political conditions to receive the support of the Front. He didn’t even have the support of his own party,” he argued.
“And now, unfortunately, these primaries are descending into a broad process of contestation and challenge from the party itself. The legitimacy of this process is being questioned by the party itself,” Armando concluded.