On the same day that he announced the 20% readjustment in the salaries of health and public safety professionals, this Thursday (10), Governor João Doria (PSDB) invested in another front of competition with Bolsonaro, but in the area of infrastructure.
He decided to take a firmer hand in the dispute between the defenders of a bridge against the group that prefers a tunnel to connect Santos to Guarujá. The imbroglio has been dragging on for years and has gained political contours in the toucan’s rivalry with the president.
Doria said that the State will go to court to ask for the immediate start of works on the bridge, if it does not receive authorization from the federal government by the end of March.
“It’s been almost a year since this work could have started. There’s only one reason the federal government hasn’t released it: the political reason,” said Doria.
The infrastructure minister of the Bolsonaro government, Tarcísio de Freitas (who is due to contest the elections for Palácio dos Bandeirantes with Doria’s deputy, Rodrigo Garcia), has been signaling support for the tunnel in recent years. According to the minister, the bridge does not match the port.
At the end of last year, the board of the PPI (Investment Partnership Program), made up of the President of the Republic, ministers and presidents of state-owned banks, approved the inclusion of the tunnel project in the PPI.
In addition to the judicialization promised by Doria in March, the matter should heat up with Bolsonaro personally entering the issue. A group of businessmen campaigning for the tunnel option invited Bolsonaro to go to Santos, in March, to participate in an event that will defend the underground option.
Joana Cunha with andressa Motter and Ana Paula Branco
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