Eliane subscribes to Marina's thesis, just like Itamar.
According to columnist Eliane Cantanhêde, former senator Marina Silva will need the PSDB party to govern as much as Itamar Franco did, who ended up having FHC (Fernando Henrique Cardoso) as a minister and, later, as his successor; this hypothesis is gaining strength in PSDB circles that argue that José Serra should be for Marina what FHC was for Itamar, that is, a kind of super-minister; the risk of division within the PSDB is increasingly greater.
247 - Launched by former minister Luiz Carlos Mendonça de Barros, the theory that a potential Marina Silva government would resemble that of Itamar Franco is gaining traction within the PSDB party. According to this theory, lacking qualified personnel and political alliances, Marina will have to rely on PSDB technocrats in her government and party members in Congress.
Thus, hope is growing within the PSDB that Marina will turn to the party as her main pillar of support, and yesterday, not by chance, she made her first overture to former governor José Serra (read here).
Aware of this possibility, columnist Eliane Cantanhêde endorsed the thesis this Sunday in her article. ItamarinaAccording to her, Marina will need the PSDB party as much as Itamar needed it in the past.
"If she defeats Aécio in the first round and Dilma in the second, she will be the only president, since Itamar, in a position to call for a national pact with the main political forces in the country. Particularly with the PSDB, since the PT lives on support, but doesn't support the other," she says.The PSDB would need Marina in the second round, but she would also depend on the PSDB to govern. Almost as much as Itamar depended on it."
The risk for the PSDB is that these movements within the party will end up Christianizing candidate Aécio Neves, causing Marina to cease being Plan B and become Plan A to defeat the PT.