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BRASÍLIA – The mayor of Rio, Marcelo Crivella (Republicans), will ask President Jair Bolsonaro to help him deconstruct the image of Eduardo Paes (DEM) as a “good manager” in the second round. It should be received this Thursday at the Palácio do Alvorada for a breakfast, in which the president will say how he plans to participate in the campaign. The mayor wants Bolsonaro to enter actively, including participating in street events.
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The idea of the Republican campaign is to focus the debate in the second round on the situation in the prefecture inherited by Crivella in January 2017, after two terms of Paes. The articulators affirm that it is not intended that the candidate or Bolsonaro make personal attacks on Paes, but that the economic problems that the current mayor would have left and inherited are criticized.
In the first live broadcast he did while supporting Crivella, Bolsonaro left open the possibility for fans to choose another name and even praised Paes, saying he was a “good manager.”
“The other one that you also know is a good administrator, but I’m staying here with Crivella,” he said, on October 29.
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Crivella traveled last night to meet with federal deputy Otoni de Paula (PSC-RJ), who scheduled the meeting with the president. According to Otoni, Bolsonaro told him that he will participate in at least one agenda with the mayor of Rio.
– The president assured me that he will go to Rio to walk with Crivella.
The mayor’s allies had already tried to convince Bolsonaro to participate in a street event in the first round, but to no avail. The only meeting between the two during the electoral period was on a trip by Crivella to Brasilia, at the end of October, to record a video supporting the president for the electoral season.
Sources say Senator Flávio Bolsonaro (Republicans) has acted to prevent his father’s involvement in Crivella’s campaign, advising the president to adopt a more neutral tone in the second round. Wanted by GLOBO, Flávio stated:
– Like the first shift, I won’t walk with anyone. But who will decide is the President of the Republic. If there is any support, it is your decision.
Crivella was already planning the trip to Brasilia even before the meeting was confirmed. The biggest obstacle was the TV Band debate today.
With 30 points of disadvantage for Eduardo Paes (DEM), according to the Ibope investigation released yesterday, and in the midst of a tight schedule, Crivella’s team estimates that the mayor cannot miss the debates.
Despite pressure from allies, Bolsonaro has not yet publicly declared whether he will participate in Crivella’s campaign in the second round. In the first stage, Bolsonaro expressed himself only by recording a video for the campaign and mentioning the mayor in his life on social networks. Bolsonaro promoted, in the week of the first round, live broadcasts with candidates for mayors from three capitals – Belo Horizonte (MG), Recife (PE) and Manaus (AM) – but there was no invitation to the mayor of Rio.
To further involve the president in his campaign, Crivella will argue that Paes belongs to the same political group as the mayor, Rodrigo Maia (DEM), and the governor of São Paulo, João Doria (PSDB), seen by Bolsonaro as a potential opponent in 2022 ..
So far, the only gesture that the president has made in the second round has been in relation to delegate Eguchi (Patriota), candidate for mayor of Belém, who is facing Edmilson Rodrigues (PSOL), candidate of the left front.
“If I were a voter in Belém / PA, I would certainly vote,” Bolsonaro responded on Facebook to a voter who defended Eguchi’s name.
After the defeats of several names supported by Bolsonaro, the candidates have sought to shed their image.
In Fortaleza (CE), the president had already expressed his preference for Captain Wagner (PROS), but the candidate shuns support, especially since the president’s rejection is high in the state. Wagner’s campaign coordinator, Senator Eduardo Girão (PROS) says that the candidate cannot be called a “bolsonarista”, and emphasizes the votes in which the federal deputy did not follow the government’s guidelines.
