Overview
- Carlos Bolsonaro formalized his pre-candidacy for the Senate in Santa Catarina and said the decision was his own, not simply directed by his father.
- He highlighted a new Neokemp survey that shows him trailing PL colleague Carol de Toni and argued that a pure PL ticket with her would be “victorious,” writing that “nobody takes anyone’s seat.”
- His entry disrupted a plan that paired Carol de Toni with Senator Esperidião Amin of the Progressistas, a configuration designed to bolster the governor’s reelection coalition.
- Carol de Toni has opened talks with the Novo party as she seeks to preserve a Senate run if the PL–PP balance collapses.
- A PL city councilor in Cuiabá, Rafael Ranalli, publicly invited Carlos Bolsonaro to switch and run for the Senate from Mato Grosso, a move echoed in a joint video with state deputy Elizeu Nascimento.