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"Não vejo no Tarcísio a mesma base do PSDB" diz Haddad | DIRETO AO PONTO
28 statements · 1 politicians · June 23, 2026 · 4 min
Statements by Fernando Haddad. 28 transcribed statements, with topic and stance on the ones the analysis classified. Topics: Parties and Elections, Political Governance, Monetary Policy, Public Safety and Order.
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Desconhecido
Minister, I'd like to start by asking you about what happened this weekend regarding the withdrawals of Kim Kataguiri and also Paulo Serra from the candidacy for the government of the State of São Paulo, and also how this contest stands now, because we only have two pre-candidates, you and Tarcísio de Freitas.
Desconhecido
But there's another point that's been mentioned: behind the scenes the PSB is considering launching Márcio França for the state government as well to create a dual platform.
Desconhecido
here in the State of São Paulo.
Desconhecido
So Alckmin would support Márcio França and President Lula would support you.
Desconhecido
How do you assess that possibility?
Desconhecido
And I also want you to comment on, regarding the withdrawals, the impact this will have on a first- and second-round election.
Look, I never really had much faith in Kim's candidacy.
A person still somewhat fragile, a bit inexperienced, with little public presence.
About: restore PSDB's relevance as a democratic centrist party
But I trusted and even rooted for, to be perfectly honest with you, that the PSDB could attempt a resurgence.
I was never affiliated with the PSDB, but I have always had respect for the PSDB's figures.
I worked with many of those figures and saw in Fernando Henrique, in Covas, in Serra, and in Alckmin himself — who is now our vice president — references.
Ethical, a reference of values, and they shared an important common ground, both in the PT and in the PSDB.
About: restore PSDB's relevance as a democratic centrist party
Today the PSDB, unfortunately, in my opinion, has been replaced on the right by people who do not share those values.
Democracy, not always the truth.
Desconhecido
For example, who, Minister?
Those people who are governing Brazil, the states today, right?
Take the case of Minas.
About: elect and support leaders who respect democratic values and dissent
Rio de Janeiro, take Cláudio Castro, Zema, Tarcísio himself — I don't see in them the same foundational background of the PSDB.
- Against
About: promote an agenda of privatizations and reforms
The PSDB was a party with which I disagreed, to some extent, on several important issues — on privatizations I disagreed — but there was a common ground, a common base, which was the struggle against the military dictatorship.
About: implement stricter control of gun ownership and carrying
The struggle against heavy-handedness, the struggle against guns, the struggle against violence, the attempt to seek minimal levels of civility, of respect for dissent.
I don't see that in those governors of the Southeast today.
About: restore PSDB's relevance as a democratic centrist party
So, I regretted somewhat, answering your question, that the PSDB didn't even attempt a comeback.
So, it has gone into a collapse.
Dória was no longer very much of a PSDB member, Rodrigo Garcia was opportunistically brought into the PSDB because he never had any relation with the PSDB, Rodrigo's past was completely different, and then came Tarcísio's election.
So it came about as a decline from those principles and values that I so much respect.
So I lamented that, seeing the speeches.
From some veteran tucanos and so on, I perceived in them an attempt to reclaim the party.
And, in the end, it was the only thing left, in my opinion, perhaps definitively.
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