Friboi is having difficulty fitting into the opposition.
Businessman must leave the PSB to avoid conflicting with the Planalto Palace's interests, since the BNDES has a stake in the J&F Group's companies and Eduardo Campos seems willing to challenge Dilma; Michel Temer is orchestrating Júnior Friboi's move to Iris's PMDB party, which is a master at welcoming newcomers with potential gubernatorial candidacy (see Vanderlan and Henrique Meirelles) and then sabotaging them to become the candidate himself.
Goiás 247_ The political affiliation of businessman Júnior Friboi (PSB) is currently the most talked-about subject in Goiás politics. The billionaire is in the socialist party of the governor of Pernambuco, Eduardo Campos. And in recent years he has tried (without much success) to strengthen the party in Goiás with the intention of running for governor.
However, another candidacy could take Júnior Friboi out of the PSB and push him into Iris Rezende's PMDB. Eduardo Campos' pre-campaign has grown and is already causing concern in the Planalto Palace and President Dilma Rousseff. BNDES, linked to the federal government, holds a 30% stake in the companies of the J&F Group, owned by the Friboi family.
This conflict of interest practically makes it impossible for Júnior Friboi to remain in the PSB party. His brothers, Wesley and Joesley, have already foreseen this scenario and, as they don't want friction with the federal government, are already forcing Júnior to switch to the PMDB party. It was thanks to the substantial loans from BNDES that the Batista family's holding company became the largest meat processor in the world.
The PMDB is Dilma's main ally and, in theory, seems to be the ideal party for Friboi to lead the opposition against Marconi Perillo. Vice-President Michel Temer invited Iris and Don Iris to lunch in Brasília on the 16th. The aim of the conversation is to prepare the ground for Júnior Friboi's affiliation with the party.
Behind the scenes, there's even information suggesting that the national leadership of the PMDB is tired of Iris Rezende's defeats to Marconi and, to that end, will now back Júnior Friboi. However, things aren't so easy in the PMDB of Goiás. Iris is the one who runs the party, and he's a master at promoting supposed candidacies of allies only to cut them off at the root later.
That's what happened to the former president of the Central Bank, Henrique Meirelles, from Goiás, in 2010. Iris was the mayor of Goiânia and swore he wouldn't leave the municipal administration. However, at the right moment, he made his move, and Meirelles was left high and dry.
The same scenario is now unfolding with Júnior Friboi. He may even join the party with the blessings of Dilma and Temer, and even Iris, but he will have to move a herd of cattle to get Iris Rezende out of his way and avoid ending up in the slaughterhouse.
With all these variables, Friboi's situation within the opposition is delicate. Especially since many of the PMDB's deputies and leaders are only interested in its famous money.