The political polarization Brazil is experiencing ahead of next October’s elections became more acute when it learned on Monday of the resignation of the electoral race Social Democrat Joao Doria, until recently governor of São Paulo.

Doria, 64, a businessman involved in politics, became from the position of governor of São Paulo in one of the biggest critics of the presidential administration of the far right Jair Bolsonaro.

Despite the bad data the polls gave him, he decided to launch himself into the presidential career to occupy a position of the so -called “third way”between Bolsonaro and leftist and former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

But on Monday, in an unexpected act that lasted twelve minutes and ended in tears, Doria threw in the towel announcing that she would not stand for election on Oct. 2, “with a wounded heart, but with a light soul”as mentioned.

In the middle

Doria, who holds the highest administrative position in the most populous state and has the most developed economy in Brazil, he was governor of São Paulo for three years, until last April 1, when he left his position due to legal mandate and turned to the electoral race.

Knowing the polarization between Lula and Bolsonaro, Doria insisted in her message that the country “needs an alternative to offer voters. who dislikes extremes“.

But his candidacy as the presidential candidate of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB), which he won in the primaries on November 21, was not only found low support in polls, but also internal diversity.

“Today, May 23, I quietly understand that I am not the one chosen by the PSDB leadership,” and “I accept this fact with my head raised,” Doria said in front of a group of supporters and accompanied to the platform of His wife. and other leaders.politicians.

The hope of alternative means of rivalry between Bolsonaro and Lula is now on its way to Senator Simone Tebet, candidate for the presidency of the Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB), who was also supported in a veiled way by the Ciudadanos party and who was even lower than Doria in the polls.

the polls

One of the most recent surveys, from the National Confederation of Carriers (CNT), gave Doria 3.1% of the vote and Tebet was even smaller, 2.3%, both far from Lula’s 40.6% and Bolsonaro’s 32.0%.

Doria announced her resignation a day before a meeting called by the PSDB leadership to study the prospects for the October election contest, albeit in today’s announcement. the options point to Senator Tebet.

“We have an understanding of communicating with Citizenship and the MDB and we will take a step forward now ”, affirmed PSDB president Bruno Araújo, who was present at the act in which Doria announced that he would step down.

In this conversation, it’s a matter of defining “not just the name”, Araújo says, “and Simone’s name is a name “ governed in favor of the single candidacy of these “third way” parties.

“As president of PSDB, I would very much like us to have our own candidacy-he added-, but there is something greater than all that, there is something greater than the will of Joao Doria or my will. The will is now together “.

Transcended to the local media, they maintain that Doria’s party sees Senator Tebet as more potential and likely this Tuesday officially announce who will be the sole candidate in the three groups mentioned.

In her farewell, Doria stressed that she considered herself “a person who respects common sense, dialogue and balance”, qualities that, as she pointed out, recommended her to renounce the electoral race.

“I have always sought and continue to seek unityeven against my personal will, “he added.

EFE Agency

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