The national PT (Workers' Party) is expected to veto its own candidate in 2014.
The party president, Rui Falcão, will lead a meeting with state leaders in early December to prevent the breakdown of alliances in the states from jeopardizing Dilma's reelection project; in Goiás, the crisis has worsened in recent days and the PT is showing itself willing to support Gomide and Paulo Garcia; the order from above will be to abandon the candidacy and support the PMDB candidate, which so far seems likely to be Iris Rezende.
Goiás 247 - Goiás is one of the problematic states for the national PT (Workers' Party). This is because the general order within the party is to unite around the reelection of Dilma Rousseff, and for that reason, regional candidacies cannot interfere with the Planalto's (presidential palace) project.
"The PT is currently facing disagreements and uncertainties in states such as Rio de Janeiro, Espírito Santo, Ceará, Maranhão, Santa Catarina, Pernambuco, and Goiás," says an article in the newspaper O Globo.
To avoid splits, the party's re-elected president, Rui Falcão, has the mission of leading a meeting in December with state leaders of the PT to determine that the priority is Dilma's re-election.
In recent days, the PT-PMDB relationship in Goiás has entered a crisis. PT members have already held meetings with the party's pre-candidates, Antônio Gomide and Paulo Garcia, and are willing to support one of them for the state government in 2014. The PMDB says it is calm and indicates that it will not accept pressure from the PT to choose its candidate by March.
Iris Rezende's party wants to choose the candidate only at the conventions in June. The PT (Workers' Party) wants to do it sooner because Gomide and Garcia need to resign from their mayoral positions by April 5th to be eligible to run in the election.
Complaints
The PMDB's complaint has already reached Brasília, and Operation Falcão has already been put into action: "...Goiás and Ceará are advocating for their own names, which has been a source of complaint from the allied party in the federal government," says an excerpt from the O Globo article.
In Goiás, the PMDB party will collect its due, and it's a big one: Paulo Garcia was elected mayor of Goiânia with the massive support and political capital of Iris Rezende. Without the PMDB leader as his godfather, Garcia would hardly have reached the position.
Moreover, the mayor has been going through a period of acute administrative crisis, and there is no sign of support from the PMDB party. It's yet another message from the PMDB members along the lines of: either you stay with us, or we won't defend Paulo Garcia and we'll let him hang himself.
The alliance's situation is critical, so much so that Rui Falcão stepped in to calm things down.