Marta: PT's alliance with Maluf is a "nightmare"
Passed over by Fernando Haddad in the São Paulo race, the former mayor continues to attack the candidate; the senator also advised her running mate Erundina to join forces with Haddad and campaign throughout the city; José Serra, without the PP party, said that "everyone will go where they think is best."
247 - If the chances of former mayor Marta Suplicy supporting her party's candidate, Fernando Haddad, in the São Paulo mayoral race were already slim, they became even more reduced after the PT negotiated an alliance with Paulo Maluf's PP. "I think an alliance with Gilberto Kassab would be a nightmare, imagine now with Maluf," she told journalist Ana Virginia Baloussier, from Monica Bergamo's column.
With the addition of the PP, the PT gains about one minute and thirty seconds of television time, surpassing José Serra in this respect, but the cost of the alliance has been criticized even by members of Haddad's ticket, such as the vice-presidential candidate, Luiza Erundina. Marta also made a pointed remark about her, criticizing her speech in which she compared the São Paulo election to a "class struggle." In a sign that she will not actually get involved positively in the election, Marta said that Haddad and Erundina should join forces and campaign together.
"Everyone goes where they think is best."
Candidate José Serra, however, apparently felt the blow. Yesterday, when questioned about the alliance between the PT and PP parties, he was evasive. “Everyone makes their own alliances,” he said. “I haven’t commented on alliances, other candidates’ running mates, nothing,” he stated, after the PV convention that sealed the party’s support for the PSDB in the São Paulo election. “Everyone goes where they think is best.”