João Doria was swallowed by Bolsodoria, the name of the married votes for the Presidency of the Republic and the government of São Paulo in 2018. His claim to be an alternative to Bolsonaro in the field of the right and far right has failed.
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Doria acted responsibly to bring the vaccine to Brazil. His action as governor helped put pressure on President Jair Bolsonaro to buy the vaccines he was so reluctant to buy. However, this flag never managed to turn into a vote.
According to the Allies, in Doria’s political calculation, she imagined that the pandemic would destroy it. Bolsonaro will pave the way for the toucan to present himself as the event’s anti-PT in 2022. By that reckoning, Lula would have been left out of the presidential race.
Everything went wrong for Doria, who, ironically, entered election life and fueled the fire of anti-politics.
Despite the health disaster aggravated by the government’s incompetence and denial, Bolsonaro retained his most loyal base, which barred Doria’s entry into the right and far-right. Bolsodoria’s stigma only served to classify the president’s allies as a traitor.
Lula’s re-running presidential vote with Geraldo Alckmin as vice president seems like a perfect example of the popular saying that revenge is a dish best served cold. From centre-left, Lula was able to signal with Alckmin to the centre- and centre-right audience. The PT has narrowed the path to the so-called third path, which has been the most exaggerated topic by the Brazilian press in the current presidential campaign.
Former Tucano Alckmin, whom Doria betrayed in 2018, has made the PSDB crisis even more obvious by adopting the PT candidacy, a party that is on its way to becoming a legend like Citizenship.
His image of personal arrogance certainly contributed to the end of the presidential project of the former governor of São Paulo. The style earned him hostility on PSDB. However, the party itself buried Doria’s candidacy and openly Christianized the nominee who had won the domestic primary.
However, it was the absolute lack of votes that really killed Doria’s candidacy, as Lula and Bolsonaro made the current presidential race a plebiscite and blocked the way for other candidates.
In this context, Simone Tebet (MDB) sits like a glove on candidates for governor and Senate who choose not to choose Bolsonaro or Lula in the first round to prioritize their regional projects. An unknown and lowly rejected candidate by a large majority of the electorate is a lighter burden than Doria can bear.
source: Noticias
