PT congressman says he will join Marina's party.

247 Marina Silva's new party is expected to gain another representative in September, following the announcement by Representative Alfredo Sirkis (PV-RJ). joining the projectCongressman Domingos Dutra (PT-MA) said this Friday (15) that he should leave his party and join the new party, which will be announced this Saturday in Brasília. The announcement event should include fellow PT members Senator Eduardo Suplicy and Congressman Alessandro Molon (RJ).

In a speech given this Friday in the Chamber of Deputies, Dutra said he is leaving the PT (Workers' Party) "with a heavy heart" and that his stance is "perhaps irreversible." His departure is expected in September, and his continued membership is contingent only on the PT in Maranhão breaking with the "Sarney oligarchy."

The congressman also said that he had no choice but to leave the party. According to him, some members of the Workers' Party (PT) in his state want to "liberate" Maranhão from the Sarney family, while others want to support him. "I am being forced to leave the PT, the party to which I have dedicated my life for three decades, because of this absurd situation," he said.

Dutra's activism in the PT spans exactly 33 years of the party's existence. And he says that Marina's new party will fight for the same original ideals of the PT members. "This new party will try to recapture some of those dreams that motivated us to found the PT in 1980," he said in his speech on the floor of the Chamber of Deputies.