Beltrame refuses to be Pezão's running mate.
To avoid joining the ticket of the current vice-governor, Sérgio Cabral (PMDB), in the 2014 gubernatorial race, the state's Secretary of Security claimed he does not want to transfer his electoral domicile; he is from Rio Grande do Sul.
247 – The Secretary of Public Security of Rio de Janeiro declined the invitation to run in the 2014 elections as Luiz Pezão's vice-governor candidate. Beltrame has been one of those most affected by the drop in popularity of Governor Sérgio Cabral. The police are accused of excessive violence in suppressing the constant demonstrations calling for the impeachment of the PMDB politician. Read the information from Vera Magalhães, from Painel, Folha:
He asked to leave. José Mariano Beltrame officially informed Governor Sérgio Cabral (PMDB) that he will not be a candidate for vice-governor on Luiz Pezão's ticket for governor of Rio. The state's Secretary of Security, who is from Rio Grande do Sul, does not even want to transfer his electoral domicile.
RSVP Pezão will be touring neighborhoods in Rio's northern zone with Eduardo Paes next weekend, in a strategy to associate his image with the mayor of the Rio de Janeiro capital. Cabral will not be going.