Panel SA: Exchange of Meirelles in the Doria government collides with electoral agenda

With only a few weeks to go before Henrique Meirelles leaves the São Paulo Finance Department, the state government is scrambling to find a replacement, and one of the reasons for the impasse is the tonic that vice-governor Rodrigo Garcia (PSDB) can give to the administration. when to assume the chair after João Doria leaves to run for president.

The caution of those who evaluate the invitations to join the government is, rather, to understand how Rodrigo Garcia intends to guide his campaign to stay at Palácio dos Bandeirantes.

With the left field overcrowded by candidates like Fernando Haddad, Marcio França and Guilherme Boulos, Rodrigo Garcia is left with the freer right lane. However, he will have to compete for space with Tarcísio de Freitas, Bolsonaro’s Minister of Infrastructure, who may attract the anti-Doria electorate, in the wake of the war installed between the president and the toucan.

Even Geraldo Alckmin, who, according to the December Datafolha poll, leads with ease, today has his name sewn together with that of former President Lula in conversations for the presidential ticket, which denies him the chance to explore anti-PTism.

For those who evaluate the vacancy in the secretariat and observe this chess, it is necessary to study all the possibilities before entering, including the possibility of seeing, up front, Rodrigo Garcia abandon Doria to please the electorate with rejection of the toucan partner.

It would be a re-edit of what Doria himself did in 2018 with his then-co-religionist Alckmin, who was running for president with meager results in the polls.

with Andressa Motter e Ana Paula Branco ​