Panel SA: Dinner host for Doria says that toucan gave a clear sign of withdrawing from the candidacy

Businessman Marcos Arbaitman, host of the dinner that honored João Doria on Wednesday (30), says that the now ex-governor gave clear signs that night that he really considered leaving the presidential race.

In the back-and-forth of information, Arbaitman says that his friend toucan was determined to give up the candidacy, but the next morning he sent him a message with a thumbs up to confirm that he would continue in the race.

In addition to the political conversations, the information circulated at the dinner that Maringá, Arbaitman’s tourism company, recorded record sales in March, despite the negative scenario of war and increase in air tickets, which, according to the businessman, is a sign of resumption of business travel after the impact suffered by the pandemic.



Mr. and Maringá Turismo appeared on the news because of the dinner with businessmen that Doria attended at his house. In addition to politics, there was talk of a sales record for your company at the event. Has tourism reacted to the pandemic crisis? The information is true. March, which ended just now, broke sales record in 54 years of company, which is good news for the market, airlines, the hotel chain and people who want to travel. Our difficulty is place in an airplane.

The airlines have raised their fares, but there is no place. There is a boom in the travel business. This month has been great.

Did the sector react despite the war scenario, high ticket prices and jet fuel? And the dollar fell from R$5.7 to R$4.7. It helps. But there are airline tickets. Now, the company opens a flight and starts to fill the flight. The system will increase the value. When there are only 4 or 5 seats, the fare goes from US$ 600 to US$ 1,800 in the economy. It is a system that companies created to return to profitability.

Every airline in the world has lost billions in the past two years. Our company had zero revenue. Everyone who repressed travel now wants to travel again.

Is this also happening in the corporate travel segment, which has been shaken up a lot?A part, 82% of our company is corporate.

Take a Volkswagen, which is our client, they stopped flying to Germany and had a virtual meeting.

In 2020 and 2021 it was zero revenue, and in order not to dismiss our 456 professionals, we went to get our reservation to fulfill the commitment.

Now, as I’ve been in the business for 50 years, I’ve never seen a boom like this. We are hiring 16 more professionals for technology, 11 for travel agents.

About dinner with Doria, Mr. Did you expect it to have all that repercussion?João Doria has been my friend and brother for 44 years. At the time, Mário Covas invited me to meet the president of Paulistur. When I got there, there was a boy, 21 years old.

Two years later, he was at Embratur. He launched a Brazil Passport project, in which each agency had to contribute R$5,000 to advertise Brazil worldwide. Then he went to the private sector, he became a millionaire.

He is a statesman I wish Brazil had. And, if not him, Moro. And João decided to keep the candidacy, despite having people in his own party who are against him.

In your opinion, was Doria’s strategy adequate? It all happened a little before and after dinner, but he gave his presidential speech at his house, didn’t he?His idea was so clear that he was going to leave the candidacy. For those who heard correctly, we invited 182 people and there were 209, but he was clear. He said: “I don’t have to be the candidate. It can be me, Moro, Simone Tebet, whoever it is. What I don’t want are the two at the end. And that’s what the population doesn’t want. “.

He left my house around midnight. Since he’s a brother, he sent me a message. He came home, and worked, after working, he texted me.

He was determined to give it up just to set free for whoever he wants to be. But he has love for Brazil. It’s crazy, because he’s going to work like a madman. He doesn’t need it.

There are so many people who are against it. Bolsonaro’s family, they want to kill him because he wears tight pants. And he was wearing tight pants. Is that his fault?

Mr. Did you already know this would happen?It was only in the morning that Raul Doria, his brother, called me and said: “I think João will continue as a candidate”.

I sent a message to João: “Habemus president?”. He sent that thumbs-up. I already knew in the morning that he was going to remain a candidate.

At midnight when he left the house, he was in the mood. It’s a lot of attack. He was surrounded. It must be because he’s a candidate. He came to think, without a doubt. He said this to the people who were there: “It doesn’t have to be me. An honest person has to come in.”

You, who had a connection with Mário Covas in the PSDB, as you see the split in the broken?I’m a businessman, I don’t belong to any party. Mário Covas asked me if I was going to join, I said: “I’m from the PMC, Mário Covas Party, I believe in you, but there are some guys in your party that are barbarity”.

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President of the Arbaitman Group, which includes the companies Central de Eventos, Lemontech and Maringá Turismo. President of Hadassah Brazil and of the Patrons of the Municipal Theater of São Paulo. He was state secretary of Sports and Tourism in the Mário Covas and Geraldo Alckmin administrations.

Joana Cunhawith Andressa Motterand Ana Paula Branco