Overview
- Ceará PL leaders say Jair Bolsonaro approved their plan to back a potential Ciro run for governor, with a negotiated Senate slot for pastor Alcides Fernandes.
- Ciro, newly back in the PSDB, said he wants to build a 'center-left' project inside the party and criticized the PDT for aligning with the PT, calling it a 'puxadinho do PT.'
- Despite PSDB enthusiasm, Ciro has not declared his candidacy and, in fresh comments, said he would prefer not to be a candidate.
- Bolsonarist figures André Fernandes and Capitão Wagner attended Ciro’s PSDB filiation event, signaling cross-ideological talks to assemble an opposition front in Ceará.
- PDT Ceará will elect new state and municipal directories on Nov. 1 to consolidate its alliance with the PT, as the party tries to stem defections after steep losses in leaders and mayoralties.