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RIO – Last Thursday, the operation investigating the alleged “Tip Headquarters”, in Riotur, hit the political group of Mayor Marcelo Crivella (Republicans) and created a tight skirt in the opposition committee Eduardo Paes (DEM), which tries go back to the mail. Crivella’s marketer in the 2016 victory, the economist Marcello Faulhaber was, until last week, one of Paes’s main strategists in the current campaign, but, after being the subject of a search warrant and seizure, he was removed from the position key and had the role in minimized campaign.
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The Rio Public Ministry (MP-RJ) is investigating the suspicion that Crivella’s political group received money to conduct tenders and regularize payment to suppliers in the mayor’s office. Several conversations between Faulhaber and Rafael Alves, accused of being one of the main operators of the scheme, are reproduced in the representation of the MP-RJ to Justice. The two exchanged 11,200 messages via WhatsApp between June 2017 and September 2018, a period in which Crivella was already in office. The marketer complained to Alves for not receiving what he had agreed to do for the government, and threatened to go to the Public Ministry to tell everything he knew about Crivella.
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Faulhaber’s role in the Crivella government was not well regarded by the mayor. The economist is credited with the initiative to minimize leadership positions in the first months of management. The measure affected the routine of the city government, because it left strategic positions without command in areas such as finance and issuance of licenses. In the first month, the issuance of the payroll ran the risk of being delayed, because, until mid-January, there was no one to authorize the payments.
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Comes and goes
Wanted, Paes didn’t speak. The campaign command tries to avoid the topic. Faulhaber has a temperament considered strong, like the former mayor, and their relationship is marked by back and forth. The candidate and the economist met again in the defeated campaign with the state government two years ago. A member of Paes’ campaign played down the exit, saying Faulhaber’s role was to help establish part of the government plan. “He completed his homework and left. Not much, ”he said. Asked about the role of the economist in the current mayoral campaign, federal deputy Pedro Paulo (DEM-RJ) only highlighted that the Paes campaign coordinator will be the former Minister of Culture and federal deputy Marcelo Calero (Cidadania-RJ), according to GLOBO columnist Lauro Jardim said yesterday.
Wanted, Faulhaber issued a note Wednesday saying he is continuing the campaign.
“The definition of the name of the deputy Marcelo Calero for the general coordination of the campaign is an important achievement to lead us to the electoral victory in November. As for me, from the beginning I have continued to be part of the team of professionals who develop the strategy and communication of the Bell “.
