"We will not accept blackmail from the PMDB"
After the governor of Rio de Janeiro, Sérgio Cabral (PMDB), threatened not to support President Dilma Rousseff's (PT) candidacy if the Workers' Party launches its own candidate for Governor of Rio next year, federal deputy Fernando Ferro (PT-PE) stated that his party will not accept "blackmail of any kind" from the PMDB; "We will also not accept blackmail of any kind from the PMDB, knowing that they are part of a national coalition."
PE247 – After the governor of Rio de Janeiro, Sérgio Cabral (PMDB), threatened not to support President Dilma Rousseff's (PT) candidacy if the Workers' Party (PT) launches its own candidate for Governor of Rio next year, federal deputy Fernando Ferro (PT-PE) stated that his party will not accept "blackmail of any kind" from the PMDB. According to the congressman, it makes no sense to link the national dispute to regional issues. "This applies to both the PT and the PMDB," he said.
In Rio de Janeiro, Cabral wants to launch his vice-governor, Luiz Fernando Pezão, while the PT plans to nominate Senator Lindberg Farias to run for state governor. Despite Cabral's threat not to support Dilma, made last Tuesday (21), during a dinner with members of the PMDB, in Brasília (DF), deputy Fernando Ferro does not believe that the relationship between PT and PMDB is in crisis.
“I understand this more as a tension than a crisis,” he declared to Rádio Folha. “We will also not accept any kind of blackmail from the PMDB, knowing that they are part of a national coalition, subjecting the national coalition to the issue of the state election,” said Ferro. For him, the PT cannot abandon its own candidates in states where the party has a chance of winning the election.
“We have to negotiate, dialogue, and evaluate how this should be done. But this is part of the natural pressures and tensions that are occurring, that are present in these state arrangements, which, I reiterate, will indeed be subject to the national dispute,” he added.