“If ‘plan A’ was to be a candidate for the presidency of the Republic, I would have changed political parties — and I didn’t. I was offered paths that would guarantee me running for president. I would not be the one to disperse energies in the third way. Rio Grande do Sul is not ‘plan B’ (…) Criticism of reelection [foi] government officials who run for election and end up making the exercise of government [um meio] to guarantee strength to their candidacies. My criticism of reelection is linked to this. the resignation [ao governo estadual] It opened up all possibilities. If I were in office as governor, I would have only one alternative: to run for reelection. What I wouldn’t do. when leaving the post [em março]the possibilities were opened up.”
(Eduardo Leite, former governor of Rio Grande do Sul who resigned in March after justifying his re-election candidacy yesterday. He was a presidential candidate for the PSDB, but ended up being defeated in the party’s primaries by João Doria, former governor of São Paulo. . Under internal pressure, Doria ended up resigning from the presidential candidacy last month. For the first time in 34 years of existence, the PSDB will not have its own candidate in a presidential race: it decided to support Simone Tebet, from the MDB.)