After Marta's boycott, Lula will have to work hard to get Haddad elected.
The former president will get his flu shot today. Extra care is needed for someone who recently finished chemotherapy and will have to work twice as hard on his campaign schedule in the outskirts of São Paulo to fill the void left by the senator.
247 – Former President Lula will go to the UBS (Basic Health Unit) in Rudge Ramos, São Bernardo, today. According to Vera Magalhães from Painel, Folha de S.Paulo, he will boost his immunity with a flu vaccine. Every precaution is necessary after having faced a tough course of chemotherapy – especially in this political climate.
According to the Panel, after the turbulence generated by Senator Marta Suplicy's absence from the launch of Fernando Haddad's campaign for mayor of São Paulo, members of the Workers' Party (PT) calculate that Lula will have to work twice as hard to make his candidate known in the city. The reasoning is that the scenario without Marta will require the former president's constant presence at events in the city's outskirts, a stronghold of the party, but whose electorate is linked to the senator. In these areas, they believe, only Lula's popularity could compensate for the former mayor's lack of engagement.
After Marta Suplicy's boycott, the PT revised its plans and began to plan the campaign without the senator's presence.
"Now we'll keep going without her. We can no longer stop the campaign waiting for help that isn't coming," said state deputy Enio Tatto, a member of Haddad's campaign coordination team, to Folha.
"If she didn't go, too bad. We'll continue the campaign with former President Lula," reinforced the PT leader in the Chamber, councilman Chico Macena.