Lula should meet with a group of businessmen and economists from the center

Former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT), the leading candidate in polls, is due to meet in the first half of August with the group Destroying Muros, which brings together 102 businessmen, economists, environmentalists, political scientists and communicators. .

Among the members of the group are economist Elena Landau, who is on the team of MDB candidate Simone Tebet; the chairman of the board of GP Investimentos, Fersen Lambranho; the former president of the Central Bank Arminio Fraga; businessman Horácio Lafer Piva, from Klabin; former President of Credit Suisse in Brazil José Olympio Pereira; former STF (Federal Supreme Court) minister Nelson Jobim; and economist and columnist for Sheet Samuel Pessoa.

The idea is to present a proposed policy agenda for 11 thematic areas.

Derubando o Muros is also arranging meetings with Tebet and with Ciro Gomes, the PDT candidate. The group had already spoken with the two candidates before, and also with the then presidential candidates João Doria (PSDB), former governor of São Paulo; Flávio Dino, former governor of Maranhão; former Minister of Health Luiz Henrique Mandetta; presenter Luciano Huck; businesswoman Luiza Trajano and former governor of Rio Grande do Sul Eduardo Leite (PSDB).

This is the first time, however, that businessmen and economists have tried to get closer to Lula.

“We are going to present our proposals to all candidates in the democratic camp, which does not include President Jair Bolsonaro,” says José Cesar (Zeca) Martins, a sociologist and investor who coordinates Desrubando Muros.

“Former President Lula is the candidate with the highest representation in voting intentions, and we would like to know about his projects for the country and expose our ideas,” he says.

In the first round, most of the group is expected to vote for the MDB candidate, but some have already declared that they will vote for Lula, Martins said, noting that the group is “agnostic and non-partisan.”

Former São Paulo mayor Fernando Haddad is mediating Lula’s meeting with the group, which is more ideologically identified with the center. Lula’s adviser confirms that the meeting should take place.

Created two years ago in Rio Grande do Sul, the group launches this Monday (1st), in a live, the ebook “Agenda Inadiável – Proposals from civil society: public policies for a democratic Brazil with justice, prosperity and hope”. They are proposals for education, health, public safety, innovation, industry, digital economy, energy, economy, entrepreneurship, geopolitics and environment.