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In a debate held in the Band on Thursday night (19), Bruno Covas (PSDB) and Guilherme Boulos (Psol), candidates for mayor of São Paulo, clearly exposed their differences and the speech they will adopt until the day of the second electoral round.
Covas sought to unmask Boulos’s ignorance of public management and his poor assessment of fiscal responsibility, even associating it with the errors of the PT in the mayoralty and the federal government in these matters. Boulos, for his part, said that the city has money to spare but does not use it properly, explored complaints against the Covas deputy, Councilor Ricardo Nunes (MDB), and fiercely contested the way in which the mayor of Tucano handled the pandemic . of the new coronavirus.
Covas attempted to demonstrate the anachronism of Boulos’s vision of economics at different points in the debate. The most effective was when he asked the psolista about nurseries run by accredited associations. Boulos said he did not intend to abolish the model, but Covas denied this by reading an excerpt from the adversary’s government program that advocates for precisely that, reversing outsourcing, privatization and the convention of education.
It was the mayor’s way of getting Boulos to reveal his dislike of state partnerships with the private sector and his appreciation for a state that can directly account for all public services. It was the signal for Covas to remember the times of the PT, when dozens of new state-owned companies were created.
Curiously, it was when he lifted the ball from the nursery school that Covas opened the guard and allowed Boulos to hit him with a left hook: “Are you putting your hand on fire for your vice?”
Ricardo Nunes, the deputy of Covas, according to Boulos, appears in several reports as a politician involved in suspicious deals with entities and tenants of properties in the associated nursery sector.
In his response, Covas added a new element to his defense of Nunes: the councilor was responsible, according to him, for recovering for the city one billion reais in bank debts. In addition, he claimed the usual: that his deputy does not respond to any process.
Covas managed to extract a controversial assertion from Boulos: that the PSDB’s public security policy in São Paulo leads to extermination.
Boulos, meanwhile, put Covas on the ropes by exploring the risk of a new wave of covid-19 in the city and criticizing him for not having done enough to contain the pandemic. “It is easy to be a trained engineer,” Covas replied, repeating a phrase that has already become his catchphrase in debates.
If we are to summarize the debate in two sentences, each one pronounced by one of the candidates, it would be these: “The problem is not money, it is priorities” (Boulos) and “I am not here to sell illusions” (Covas).
