Cid: PSB cannot "strengthen reactionary opposition"
The opinion of the governor of Ceará, Cid Gomes (PSB), is that the party's own candidacy, which will launch the governor of Pernambuco, Eduardo Campos, for president in 2014, cannot "strengthen the reactionary opposition"; in a conversation last Monday, Cid offered to bring Campos closer to President Dilma Rousseff, according to behind-the-scenes information published by Folha.
PE247 – The governor of Ceará, Cid Gomes (PSB), believes that the PSB's own candidacy in 2014 cannot "strengthen the reactionary opposition." In other words, the candidacy of the governor of Pernambuco, Eduardo Campos, should lean further to the left, alongside President Dilma Rousseff. At a dinner with Campos last Monday, Cid even offered to bring him closer to Dilma, according to [source missing]. published behind-the-scenes footage According to Folha de S.Paulo, the Painel column reported this Thursday that Campos confirmed to Cid that he will be a candidate for president in the next elections.
Cid is against the pact made between Campos and Senator Aécio Neves, who is expected to run for office with the PSDB party. Therefore, he expressed his concern to his party colleague. "Our role in strengthening the reactionary opposition worries me. Our camp, and he confirmed this to me, is a progressive camp, and I worry that our candidacy could only serve the reactionary and conservative forces in Brazil," he told the newspaper.
Cid Gomes stated that, "if I had seen in him a disrespectful attitude towards Dilma," he would not have suggested a rapprochement with the president. "I would never do that, end of discussion, but that wasn't the case. So I will go to the limit to try to recover this relationship," he said. According to him, Campos declared that he had "respect" for the head of the Executive branch and called her a "serious, hardworking, and well-intentioned woman."