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Alcolumbre leads candidate for president of the Senate to receive blessing from Bolsonaro
BRASÍLIA, DF (FOLHAPRESS) – The president of the Senate, Davi Alcolumbre (DEM-AP), took his candidate for the succession to the House, Rodrigo Pacheco (DEM-MG), to have lunch with President Jair Bolsonaro (without match), this Thursday (24), at the Palácio da Alvorada. According to a person familiar with the articulations on Pacheco’s candidacy, the meeting was a Christmas gathering at the invitation of Bolsonaro and lasted about two hours. Pacheco has yet to be officially nominated in the Senate. In the conversation, a balance of the year was made and, according to this source, Bolsonaro thanked Alcolumbre for having prevented the worsening of the crises in times of tension between the Executive and the Legislative. An interlocutor from Alcolumbre defined Thursday’s lunch as a gesture by Bolsonaro that he will not resist Pacheco’s candidacy. The president of the Senate left Alvorada telling people close to him that he was clear that the Planalto Palace will not openly campaign for Pacheco, but will not sponsor another name or hinder the senator from Minas Gerais. Earlier this month, Bolsonaro’s aides indicated that the president had a preference for a name from BMD, the party that has the largest bench in the Senate and is home to government leaders in the Senate, Fernando Bezerra (PE), and in Congress, Eduardo Gomes. (TO). In a previous conversation, Bolsonaro had already indicated to Alcolumbre that he would support his chosen one. This Wednesday (23), the chances of supporting a BMD name in the Senate decreased even more with the definition that the group of the current mayor, Rodrigo Maia (DEM-RJ), will support for his succession in the neighboring Chamber. deputy Baleia Rossi (MDB-SP), party leader in the Chamber and president of the national party. Also, the MDB in the Senate is divided. In addition to Bezerra and Gomes, the party leader in the Senate, Eduardo Braga (AM), and the president of the CCJ (Constitution and Justice Commission), Simone Tebet (MS), are interested in the Alcolumbre chair. Alcolumbre left Alvorada and went to Amapá, where he will spend Christmas with his family. He will return to Brasilia in December. Starting in January, he plans to travel across the country in a campaign for Rodrigo Pacheco. Today you count a maximum of 25 votes in favor of your candidate. 41 votes are needed to elect the Speaker of the House. After two years at the helm of the Senate, Davi Alcolumbre will resign in February. The senator has already been surveyed by the Executive to assume a ministry, but has been advised against by auxiliaries. If, on the one hand, going to the government would open the vacancy of senator for his brother and first alternate, Josiel Alcolumbre (DEM-AP), defeated in the mayoral elections of Macapá (AP), on the other, Davi has received instructions from remain in the Senate to make his re-election possible in 2022. The decision, however, will only be made in February. The report tried to contact Alcolumbre and Pacheco, but they did not respond. The Planalto Palace reported that Bolsonaro had no official agenda this Thursday. He is only expected to do his weekly live and a speech on national radio and television. In the morning, Bolsonaro went to a hospital in Brasilia to accompany an endoscopy to which one of his sons, Councilor Carlos Bolsonaro (Republicans-RJ), was subjected. Bolsonaro had spent the beginning of the week on a beach in Santa Catarina and returned to Brasilia on Wednesday. He spends Christmas in the federal capital and must travel to Guarujá, on the coast of São Paulo, on Saturday (26). The expectation is that the New Year will pass in the place.
