PT Launches Grass for DF Governor, Kokay for Senate

Overview

• PT’s DF federation formally launched Leandro Grass for governor and Érika Kokay for the Senate at an event in Brasília’s Ulysses Guimarães Convention Center.
• Speakers attacked the Ibaneis Rocha and Celina Leão administrations, with Grass saying Brasília is moving backward and pointing to the BRB–Banco Master case to question financial management at the DF’s public bank.
• The campaign tied the local race to President Lula’s reelection effort, and PT national president Edinho Silva sent a video urging a first-round presidential win.
• The coalition slate remains open as talks continue, with the vice-governor spot and two Senate alternate seats unfilled and Senator Leila do Vôlei expected to join the ticket.
• Grass left the federal heritage agency Iphan on April 2 to meet election rules that require officeholders to step down, and he set priorities in health, public schools, jobs, transport, sanitation, and combating femicide.