Camboriú Mayor Condemns Carlos Bolsonaro’s Senate Bid in Santa Catarina as a “Loucura”

Overview

• Camboriú’s Leonel Pavan, a PSD leader and former governor, said bringing Carlos from Rio to run treats Santa Catarina like a political “balcão de negócios.”
• Pavan’s remarks add to earlier pushback from the mayors of Pouso Redondo and Joinville, who called the transfer of Carlos’s electoral domicile to São José opportunistic.
• Carlos Bolsonaro resigned his Rio de Janeiro city council seat in December and repositioned himself in Santa Catarina to pursue a Senate seat.
• His entry has strained negotiations within the bolsonarista/PL camp, with Governor Jorginho Mello backing Senator Esperidião Amin (PP) and signaling only one slot for the PL.
• Internal frictions involve PL figures such as Caroline De Toni and Ana Campagnolo, even as an early January Real Time Big Data poll showed Carlos leading scenarios where he was included.