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The teacher and leader of the MTST (Homeless Workers Movement) housing movement, Guilherme Boulos, 38, will become official this Saturday 4 as PSOL candidate for the City of São Paulo with the possibility of breaking for the first time in more decades with the hegemony of the PT in the left field in the largest city in Brazil.
According to Boulos himself, the campaign will have two fronts. The first, national, aims to consolidate the role cultivated since the 2018 presidential campaign of opposition to President Jair Bolsonaro. The second, local, targets the electorate of the periphery where the poorest population of the city is concentrated.
In both cases Boulos will dispute space with the PT, although he himself assures that the party of former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is not his objective in the campaign. “I don’t think that is the point (to fight for space with the PT). My proposal is to present a project that defeats both Bolsonarism and Bruno Covas / João Doria (mayor and governor of São Paulo),” he said.
To reinforce the commitment to the periphery with symbols, Boulos chose a soccer field in the middle of the poor community of Morro da Lua, Campo Limpo, the neighborhood where he lives, for the convention that will make the candidacy official this Saturday.
In addition, he has already announced that, if elected, he intends to create a traveling office in which he intends to dispatch from the periphery. “Your head thinks where your foot steps,” said the candidate.
Another important symbol is the election of the deputy Luiza Erundina (PSOL-SP), 85, as vice-president. Elected mayor of São Paulo by the PT in 1988, Erundina managed the periphery that left visible marks until today, such as the construction of hospitals and the creation of joint housing.
On the other hand, Boulos is betting that national issues amplified by Bolsonaro’s controversial administration will be present in the debate of the municipal election. “This is going to be a national campaign. There is no other way. It is impossible to campaign in 2020 without talking about Bolsonaro. This will be up for debate,” he said.
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Son of doctors Marcos Boulos and Maria Ivete de Castro Boulos, both professors at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of São Paulo (USP), the PSOL candidate also has a degree in philosophy from USP and a postgraduate degree in clinical psychology from PUC . He was a public school teacher and joined the movement for housing in 2002.
Fierce critic of the PT governments, Boulos advanced towards Lula mainly from the beginning of the process of impeachment of former president Dilma Rousseff, when he mobilized thousands of people in protests against the removal of Dilma and the arrest of Lula.
In 2018, he joined PSOL and ran for president. It obtained 617,000 votes, the worst performance of the party in the presidential elections.
At the end of July, Boulos received the support of hundreds of great names in the Brazilian arts and intellectuals, such as Chico Buarque de Holanda, Caetano Veloso, Marilena Chauí, André Singer, Criolo and Emicida, who should also win him votes in the middle class.
Since last month, he has been walking the suburbs and meeting with community leaders, despite the restrictions imposed by the new coronavirus pandemic. In addition, you will bet on online mobilization. He has 2.8 million followers on Twitter, second only to Joice Hasselmann, a PSL candidate, with 3.2 million.
On Thursday, he and Erundina were fined R $ 5,000 by the Regional Electoral Tribunal (TRE) for a video posted on the networks considered advance advertising.
