Tarcísio announces president of Petrobras as secretary of Management in SP

Governor-elect Tarcísio de Freitas (Republicans) announced this Tuesday (6) three more secretaries of his future administration in the Government of São Paulo.

One of them is Caio Paes de Andrade, president of Petrobras, who will assume the Digital Management and Government portfolio.

Tarcísio was in Brasília this Tuesday, where he participated in the inauguration ceremony of new ministers of the STJ (Superior Court of Justice), in which he spoke in a relaxed tone with Alexandre de Moraes, minister of the STF (Supreme Federal Court) seen as an enemy by bolsonaristas.

The governor-elect announced the new secretaries on a social network, but who spoke in his place in São Paulo was Guilherme Afif Domingos (PSD), transition coordinator.

Afif stated that Andrade was chosen mainly because of his previous history at Petrobras, which he took over this year.

“Participation within the government, first chairing Serpro (Federal Data Processing Service) and then assuming the secretariat within the Ministry of Economy that took care of the digitization process with great success, it was exactly this part of the curriculum that made him chosen by Governor Tarcísio”, he said.

Andrade took over Petrobras in June, amid the crisis caused by the company’s successive increases in fuel prices. At the time, the expectation of the Jair Bolsonaro (PL) government was that it would hold off on new readjustments until the presidential elections.

Tarcísio’s future secretary has a degree in social communication from Universidade Paulista in São Paulo, with a postgraduate degree in management from Harvard University and a master’s degree in business administration from Duke University.

Lais Vita, Tarcísio’s press officer, will take over the Communication portfolio. With a master’s degree in political communication from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, she worked with the elected governor heading the communication sector of the Infrastructure portfolio, in addition to having worked as a journalist in newsrooms.

Lucas Ferraz, who works in the management of Paulo Guedes at the Ministry of Economy, will assume the portfolio of International Affairs. At the ministry, he is Secretary of Foreign Trade. He has also served as a senior consultant on international trade for the World Bank.

Tarcísio announced Colonel Sérgio Codelo for the DER (Department of Highways).

Superintendent of Dnit (National Department of Infrastructure) in São Paulo, Codelo has a degree in engineering, with a degree in military sciences and a bachelor’s degree in administration from Aman (Military Academy of Agulhas Negras).

With the nomination, Tarcísio should put an end to the influence of the president of the City Council of São Paulo, Milton Leite (União Brasil), on the state authority, responsible for several road works.

Leite and other names close to the current governor Rodrigo Garcia (PSDB), who supported Tarcísio in the second round of elections, so far have not been included in the team of the future head of Palácio dos Bandeirantes.

The governor-elect has already announced a list of more than one hundred names to act in the transition.

In addition to the secretaries announced this Tuesday, the other secretaries already defined are Arthur Lima (Civil House), Gilberto Kassab (Government), Captain Derrite (Security), Roberto de Lucena (Tourism), Natalia Resende (Infrastructure and Environment), Renato Feder (Education) and Eleuses Paiva (Health).

According to Tarcísio himself, the main work of the transition has been thinking about adjustments for next year’s budget and designing the structure of the new government. Some folders must be extinguished, others will be merged and some will be created.

The names announced by the governor-elect for his secretariat and his transition team indicate that he will focus on privatizations, as he did in the Jair Bolsonaro (PL) government, expanding the privatizations seen in previous administrations.

The assistants include people who worked in the area of ​​concessions and privatizations with Tarcísio at the Ministry of Infrastructure and people close to the Minister of Economy, Paulo Guedes.

Guedes was asked to head the Finance Secretariat, but he will not assume that position, although he continues with plans to join the São Paulo government in another role.

“Actually, Tarcísio dreams of this, so do I. [Mas] It is difficult for him to be a secretary, precisely because the function of the secretary involves a very bureaucratic part. And it’s not his characteristic, he’s a thinker. So, if he can come as a great adviser to us, he will be very welcome to guide us”, said Afif.

During the campaign and after being elected, Tarcísio gave indications that he intends to privatize one of the main state-owned companies in São Paulo, Sabesp. The future governor also stated that he will create a specific secretariat to take care of partnerships with the private sector.

On the second, in an interview with CNN Brasil, the elected governor said that he was never a “rooted Bolsonarist” and that he does not want to enter into an “ideological war” in his government.

“I was never a root Bolsonarist. I share the economic ideas, mainly, of this Bolsonaro government. The appreciation of free enterprise, the incentives for entrepreneurship, the search for private capital, the liberal vision. I am a Christian, against abortion, against the liberation of drugs, but I will not enter into an ideological and cultural war,” he said.

This Tuesday, Afif commented on criticism of Tarcísio by Bolsonaro supporters from the most ideological area. “In politics, you have to live with criticism,” Afif said. “He said what exists, I’m not a Bolsonarista from the ground up, I’m a Bolsonarista.”

So far, the only Bolsonarist considered “root” included in the first echelon is Captain Captain Derrite (PL-SP) in the Security portfolio.

However, even bringing him to the team, Tarcísio ended up postponing the idea of ​​removing the cameras from the police uniforms, just as he did with the banner of ending the mandatory vaccination of civil servants, two important nods to the most radical data during the campaign.