Dino says he doesn't rule out a merger between PCdoB and PSB after the municipal elections.

247 - The governor of Maranhão, Flávio Dino (PCdoB), said that a merger or incorporation of his party, the PCdoB, with the PSB is possible, and denied that he intends to join the socialist party to run in the 2022 presidential elections. 

"The PCdoB has a very close relationship with the PSB, our national president is vice-governor of Pernambuco with the PSB, we have an alliance in Recife. We have had this alliance since the beginning. Dialogue is very good for the country. I was very close to Eduardo Campos. But never a unilateral thing on my part to leave the PCdoB to be a presidential candidate for the PSB, that never. But an approach, an alliance, who knows, an incorporation, is a path," said Dino this Monday (13).  

Dino recalled that the PCdoB itself had already incorporated another party in the past and that the number of active parties in Brazil tends to decrease from next year onwards. “We have 30 parties, we're going to drop to 10, 12, more or less, next year. There will be many incorporations, mergers, both on the left and on the right. Not that the PCdoB will cease to exist. But, as an electoral party, you can have what are called party federations, as we did in practice with this PCdoB-PPL federation,” he said. 

According to Dino, the changes in electoral legislation, which resulted in the end of proportional coalitions and the introduction of barrier clauses, for example, have changed the national political landscape. “We have to wait for next year, which will be a party redefinition in the country. We will have an inevitable redesign, considering that the new rules regarding barrier clauses and the end of proportional coalitions will lead to many mergers,” he assessed.