PT President says that judicializing election is “unacceptable”
The acting president of the Workers Party (PT), Humberto Costa, classified the judicialization of the electoral process of the subtitle as “completely unacceptable” and said that in the past, the party was “very hard” with members who resorted to court to contradict internal decisions.
The PT’s internal election has been marked by confusion in the Minas Gerais directory. The election was postponed in the state after the court maintained the candidacy of federal deputy Dandara Tonantzin to the presidency of the Minas Gerais Directory. The parliamentarian had been excluded from the claim for paying an debt of $ 130,000 with the acronym. The election regulation required financial pending issues to be paid until May 29.
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This Sunday, 6, at the headquarters of the PT National Directorate, Humberto Costa criticized the judicial measure and said the party contested the decision. Next Tuesday, 8, the PT’s national executive will be meeting to define the date of the election in Minas.
“This process of judicialization of party decisions is one thing, in my view, completely unacceptable,” said Costa. “In the past, the party was absolutely intolerant of the judicialization of its decisions. I don’t know how it will act now, but in the past it has always been very hard.” Humberto also mentioned that cases such as these have already been taken to the party’s ethics committee.
The impasse in Minas Gerais delays the dissemination of the national result of the presidency of the acronym. According to Humberto Costa, a preview could be released on Monday, 7, only if the first place in the election has a very significant vote, so that the result in Minas Gerais cannot interfere.
The main competitor to the PT presidency is the former mayor of Araraquara Edinho Silva, who is supported by President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Edinho was Minister of Social Communication during the government of former President Dilma Rousseff.
The former mayor disputes the elections as a member of the current building a new Brazil (CNB), which is majority within the PT. The wing argues that the party is more moderate and that the government redoes agreements with the center-right to enable Lula’s reelection in 2026. On the other hand, candidates from other party trends defend a left turn in Lula’s term.
In addition to Edinho, the former PT president and federal deputy, Rui Falcão, compete for office; the party’s secretary of international relations, Romênio Pereira; and the director of the Perseu Abramo Valter Pomar Foundation.
The next PT president will be in office until 2029. The election for the party presidency is important because the next agent will be responsible, among other topics, for conducting the campaign for Lula’s reelection, and plays a key role in the articulation within Congress.
