Transportation: Dilma accepts only former opponent.
According to a note in Folha de S.Paulo, the president has not yet reached an agreement with the PR party for the ministry; the problem is due to the names indicated by the Republican leadership, which do not meet the expectations of the head of state; Dilma would only be sympathetic to the nomination of César Borges from Bahia, who is currently the Vice President of Government at Banco do Brasil; César was an opponent of the federal government for six years, during the administration of former President Lula, while he was a member of the old PFL party and had the late ACM as his political mentor.
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The reason is still unknown, but the fact is that former senator and former governor of Bahia, César Borges (PR), is very popular with President Dilma Rousseff.
According to a note from Folha, the president has not yet reached an agreement with the PR party to accommodate them in the Ministry of Transport. The problem stems from the names put forward by the party, which do not meet the expectations of the head of state.
According to the publication, the PR party recently nominated congressmen Luciano Castro (RR) and Jaime Martins (MG), but Dilma does not accept them. Folha says she only sympathizes with the nomination of César Borges from Bahia, who is currently the Vice President of Government at Banco do Brasil.
But the negotiation stalls precisely there, because the national leadership of the PR party does not accept César, who heads the party in Bahia, for the position.
According to the publication, Dilma even warned PR leaders, through Minister Aloizio Mercadante (Education), that they must accept the man from Bahia for the position or everything will remain the same.
As mentioned above, it's strange, but the man from Bahia is indeed pleasing the government. A note in the Painel column, also in Folha, last week, stated that he is receiving direct praise from the Palácio da Alvorada (Presidential Palace) for his performance at Banco do Brasil.
César Borges must be doing a really good job, after all, it's not by chance that one gains the admiration of a government to which he was so strongly opposed. He was a trusted man of the also former governor and former senator Antônio Carlos Magalhães during the time of the old PFL, now DEM.
In 2010, César was part of the opposition ticket running against Jaques Wagner in the state government. The head of the ticket was Geddel Vieira Lima (PMDB), and César attempted to renew his Senate seat. Both were defeated.
Two years later, in the election last October, however, the Republican joined forces with the Workers' Party candidate Nelson Pelegrino in the race for mayor of Salvador, which the grandson of his political mentor won.