Tijolaço and Merval disagree on the "milk-and-coffee" plate.

247 Columnist Merval Pereira and the website Tijolaço disagree on the gains of the PSDB's "coffee-with-milk" ticket.

Merval presents three key points:

1. In none of the last three presidential elections that it lost to the PT (Workers' Party) did the PSDB (Brazilian Social Democracy Party) achieve a formal unity like the one that resulted in the choice of Senator Aloysio Nunes Ferreira as Aécio Neves's running mate;

2. Members of the PSDB party from the two states have never been united, and when they were, they elected former president FHC in the first round;

3. Although not José Serra himself, Senator Aloysio, representing him, is the one who best endorses the political alliance between São Paulo and Minas Gerais.

Read below the counterpoint from Tijolaço:

Aécio, the "coffee-with-milk" era is long gone...

The PSDB is truly a party of the Old Republic.

It's none other than the Republican Party of São Paulo, my god!

The choice of Aloysio Nunes Ferreira adds, literally, only one thing to Aécio's candidacy.

What she already had: São Paulo.

In other words, it adds zero, or close to it.

Michel Temer is from São Paulo, but he belongs to the PMDB party, or at least a part of it.

Nunes Ferreira is simply a declaration of subservience to the São Paulo PSDB party. The term "São Paulo PSDB," incidentally, is almost a tautology.

It is a declaration of love for the local oligarchies, which somehow, since Lula's election, have had to reconcile themselves with a national development policy, a vision of the Nation that transcends the simple federative coexistence of local powers and dominant groups, although it does not hesitate to ally itself with them for the national project it supports.

And, among all of them, nothing is more resistant, stubborn, and insolent than the São Paulo oligarchy, for whom the idea of ​​a country developed in a balanced and inclusive way is the unacceptable proclamation of equality among Brazilians.

Certainly, as a sign of Aécio's mental submission – for whom, in theory, it would be much more electorally advantageous to have a candidate from the Northeast or even a woman, like Ellen Gracie – this option marks a certain fear of not "winning São Paulo," although the Skaf-Kassab duo is driving a wedge into the conservatism of São Paulo.

When Serra chose Índio da Costa, he did so because, after all, Serra was São Paulo, and São Paulo needed nothing more.

Now, when São Paulo chooses Aloysio, it's nothing that they're going to seek out, because they desperately need him.