Entities and associations linked to agribusiness in São Paulo have serially announced in recent days their support for candidate Tarcísio de Freitas (Republicans) for the state government.
If in the first round the sector was divided between supporting Governor Rodrigo Garcia (PSDB) and Tarcísio (with the latter predominating) against Fernando Haddad (PT), now the announcements all go in the direction of the candidate supported by President Jair Bolsonaro (PL), who also has reelection defended in the dispute against former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) — the most voted in the initial round.
Organizations such as Oricana (Association of Sugarcane Suppliers of the Orindiúva Region), Aprosoja (Association of Soy and Corn Producers) São Paulo, Assovale (Rural Association Vale do Rio Pardo) and the Rural Union of Fernandópolis announced support for Tarcísio. .
In common, they preach the fight against land invasions, legal security in the countryside and the defense of the legalized weapons of farmers to reduce violence. The state has about 400,000 rural registrations, most of them small and medium-sized producers, according to data from the São Paulo Department of Agriculture.
President of the Rural Union of Fernandópolis, engineer Marcos Antonio Mazeti said that the decision to declare support for Tarcísio and Bolsonaro, made through a note published on Thursday (6), was motivated by the set of agendas of interest to the sector.
“There are some agendas that have identified with what the president has done and with the commitments of Governor Tarcísio. And there is the question of the other candidate [Lula] have qualified the group as capiau, always reducing the productive sector. It is a matter of repudiation and the position of the entities”, he said.
Tarcísio ended the first round as the most voted by São Paulo, with 42.32% of valid votes, compared to 35.70% for Haddad. Rodrigo Garcia obtained 18.40% and, with that, the PSDB lost a governorship election in the state for the first time since 1994, when Mário Covas (1930-2001) was elected and started a sequence of seven consecutive victories for the toucans.
President of Assovale, which covers 15 cities in São Paulo, Paulo Junqueira said that the support that Tarcísio has received confirms the trend in the sector since the first round.
“A large part was already with Tarcísio and with President Jair Bolsonaro,” he said, who also presides over the Rural Union of Ribeirão Preto, which serves seven municipalities, and the Rural Association of Ribeirão.
The decision, according to him, was also taken because both Lula and Haddad “defend the same agenda and wear the same shirt and the same cap.”
“A candidate cannot, in any way, put on a cap of the MST, which is a criminal, terrorist organization that commits crimes such as invasion of productive rural property. We are in favor of agrarian reform and family farming, provided that within of legality.”
Former Secretary of Agriculture of São Paulo, the mayor of Ribeirão Preto, Duarte Nogueira (PSDB), announced the day after the first round that he would support Tarcísio in the state dispute.
“Ribeirão Preto is the national capital of agribusiness and a president and governor are needed to fight for agribusiness,” he said.
Oricana, in a note signed by its president, Roberto Cestari, said that “the horror that the Workers’ Party wants to bring back to Brazil and São Paulo cannot return.”
“Unbridled and widespread corruption, disrespect for the legal order, attacks against production, frontal violations of property rights and violence in the countryside are the agendas of criminals, not politicians,” said an excerpt from the statement issued on Wednesday (5).
The text of the association based in Orindiúva is identical to the public note issued by Aprosoja paulista on the same day.
Mazeti also said that the sector asked elected deputies in the region to support candidates who protect the agricultural agenda. “If the governor or president, both Haddad and Lula, had an agenda in defense of the sector, great, but they don’t have an agenda in that sense.”
The entities’ announcements coincide with a video of Tarcísio’s campaign published on his social networks on Thursday (6). The candidate appears in the field, wearing a hat, and says that “agro has been suffering and we can make a leap”.
The topic was discussed on the 30th, during a visit to Ribeirão Preto, two days before the first round. In an interview, he said that the priority in an eventual government of his is “to bet a lot on agriculture”.
RURAL ORIGIN
On the PT side, Fernando Haddad has reacted to the statements and said he sees exaggeration in the concern with alleged landless invasions in an eventual government.
In interviews during the campaign in the first round, the candidate spoke about food security and increasing productivity in the field.
I have already said that I am the son of a farmer and that, therefore, he has historical ties with the countryside and that it is necessary to invest in technological improvement to benefit small farmers.
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