The result of the 2022 general election indicated at least two prospects for the upcoming election in Osasco. The left has regained strength in the city and the current mayor is a good electoral force. The finding is anchored in the victory of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT), albeit with a minimal margin, and also in that of Rogério Lins (Podemos), who managed to elect his then secretary Gerson Pessoa (Podemos) as deputy state . For 2024, the comparison that is drawn includes the parliamentarian and his colleague from Casa Emídio de Souza (PT), who governed the city between 2005 and 2012.
To strengthen the “good phase”, PT leaders promoted political meetings in the city. In late June, Emídio himself organized a meeting at the Union of Bank Workers to publicize the “achievements of the third Lula administration”. In the elections of October last year, the lead of the PT over the then president and candidate for re-election, Jair Bolsonaro (PL), did not reach one percentage point: 50.4% against 49.6%.
As a result, Osasco remains politically polarized. There is no natural advantage for candidates supported by either the current president or his predecessor at the Palazzo Planalto.
weekly, the Stadium shows what the “warm up” looks like in the rush to the state’s major town halls. The series started with São Paulo, the largest and richest city in the country, with a budget of R$107.3 billion for 2024.
Bordering the capital, Osasco is the sixth most populous municipality in the state, with 743 thousand inhabitants, and holder of the second GDP of São Paulo, representing, alone, 9.8% of São Paulo’s wealth. For 2024, the City Hall’s budget forecast is BRL 5 billion.
INFLUENCE
To remain influential in local politics, Rogério Lins began his succession last year, when he launched Gerson Pessoa to run for a seat in the Legislative Assembly of São Paulo. Pessoa, then Secretary of Technology and Innovation, garnered 143,000 votes and won election to next year’s Municipal Executive.
A member of RenovaBR, a political leadership training school that has names like Eduardo Leite (PSDB) and Tabata Amaral (PSB) on its staff, Pessoa now wants to advance party alliances to avoid competing candidacies in the centre-right and polarize with the PT at urns.
With the support of the national president of Podemos, the congresswoman Renata Abreu, the congresswoman is also already gathering supporters in Osasco for political meetings. In June, Pessoa held an event to present some sort of accountability for her tenure in the Legislative Assembly, in an election-campaign tone.
COMPETITOR
But Pessoa is not guaranteed the post of Bolsonarist or anti-PT candidate. Alderman Ana Paula Rossi (PL), first daughter of former mayor Francisco Rossi, is quoted to enter the dispute. Last year she was unable to be elected state deputy, but she earned points among the former president’s allies by proposing and approving the granting of the title of “Osasque citizen” to Bolsonaro in the Osasco city council.
According to the national president of the PL, Valdemar Costa Neto, the decision whether or not to launch its own candidate in the city will be discussed together with Bolsonaro. The party’s intention is to run platters in major cities across the state. In Osasco, however, there is an impasse: the councilor’s mother, the entrepreneur Ana Maria Rossi, is the current deputy mayor.
On the left, in addition to Emídio, Professor Simony dos Anjos, of the PSOL, could try to be re-elected mayor of the city. The party left the start of talks in 2024 in the state for September. For now, the confirmed name is only that of federal deputy Guilherme Boulos, a pre-candidate in the capital.
The information comes from the newspaper The State of São Paulo.
Source: Terra
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