The two are expected to participate this Monday in a fundraising dinner promoted by the PSOL; the last event together was March 8; The coordination of the Boulos group states that the PT member is fully integrated into the pre-campaign
After a “disappearance” lasting almost two months, the former mayor Marta Suplicy (PT) will appear publicly again together with her future vice-president, Guilherme Boulos (PSOL), this Monday 6, on the occasion of a fundraising dinner promoted by the PSOL in Sao Paulo, a club on Avenida Paulista. The pre-candidate and her vice president have not attended a public pre-campaign event together since March 8, when they had breakfast with women business owners, artists and community leaders on Women’s Day.
Before that, the only other event open to the public that Marta and Boulos attended together was a walk in February in Parelheiros, a neighborhood south of the capital and one of its main electoral bases. At neither event did the former mayor give interviews to the press and has not spoken once to journalists since returning to the PT earlier this year, after leaving the party in 2015, accusing the party of leading one of the “biggest corruption scandals” in the country’s history and voting in favor of the impeachment of then-President Dilma Rousseff (PT).
Boulos had 12 days of pre-campaign agenda in Sao Paulo last month, but Marta didn’t go to any of them. The PT MP was due to attend a plenary session in Barra Funda on April 27 to discuss the proposals for women that will be included in the government’s plan, but she ultimately did not attend. The justification was that she had a virus.
“Marta Suplicy is fully integrated into the Guilherme Boulos pre-campaign,” says the pre-campaign team in a note sent to Estadao. “Marta’s participation and the pre-candidate’s agenda follow the strategy defined by the pre-campaign group, including the vice president herself, and will continue in the coming months as planned”, concludes the text. The former mayor was contacted for the report via the press office on Friday 3rd, but had no response until the publication of this text.
The tendency is for the number of events with the participation of both parties to progressively increase until the party convention which will formalize the ticket at the end of July and then during the electoral campaign. Federal deputy Rui Falcão (PT), one of the PT members closest to Marta and coordinator of her return to the party, assesses that the campaign has not started and that the elections are not yet considered a priority by the population.
“It’s not even worth getting too saturated with her. The candidate is Boulos, she is vice president, so she is an important complement. The polls show her with great potential,” the MP said. According to him, a qualitative survey carried out since the pre-campaign shows that voters consider Marta and Boulos a “couple of great impact”.
In addition to the dinner, this Monday Boulos and Marta will participate in an event organized by federal deputy Jilmar Tatto (PT) to celebrate 20 years since the launch of Bilhete Único. According to the parliamentarian, who was undersecretary for Transport in the Marta government, the idea is to connect one of the distinctive features of the PT’s management with Boulos’s proposal for zero tariffs for public transport.
“It is a way to create a link between what the PT government was then and what the Boulos government could be in the future,” he said. Estadao. There is a possibility of a third event this month, a new walk of the former mayor in the South Zone, but there is no confirmation yet. “Marta has to know the right time to come in strategically because she has had a very well-judged administration,” Tatto says. “You have to come in when the ball bounces and shoot.”
Allies point out that the former mayor adds managerial experience to the ticket and will be useful in winning votes in the suburbs thanks to the memory that voters have of her administration and the programs she created, such as the Bilhete Único itself and the Unified Educational Centers ( CEU). They also reveal that she worked behind the scenes to expand Boulos’ support network, promoting meetings with businesspeople and independent professionals.
“She also has another contribution: she expands the campaign. Even though she is back in the PT, she has many relationships outside,” says Rui Falcão, citing, for example, Marta’s collaboration in obtaining the support of the lawyer José Carlos Dias, former Minister of Justice in the Fernando Henrique Cardoso government (PSDB). “There are many people in society, who are not PT members, who help [a campanha]. Bring more people.”
One of these dinners took place about 20 days ago at the home of the lawyer and professor of the Faculty of Law of the University of São Paulo, Pierpaolo Bottini. According to Marta herself, who published a photo with Boulos and the hosts, the meeting brought together “a significant group of entrepreneurs who are thinking of a more modern, efficient São Paulo, at the cutting edge of technology and up to the challenges of greatest city in our country.”
In the last municipal elections, Marta supported former mayor Bruno Covas (PSDB), who died in 2021 from cancer, against Boulos. After the Toucan won the election, she became secretary of international relations at the São Paulo city hall, a position she also continued to hold after then-MP Ricardo Nunes (MDB) took command of São Paulo’s administration.
She was fired from the emedebista at the beginning of January this year, after agreeing on her return to the PT with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT). Marta argued that she will not be able to remain in city hall because the mayor will have the support of former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL) to seek re-election. Nunes said at the time that the “excuse doesn’t work,” but said the word betrayal was “too strong” to describe the former ally’s move.
Source: Terra
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