Analysis: Boulos uses a dangerous solution against radical DNA – 07/12/2024 – Poder

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Guilherme Boulos has matured, but he promises not to slow down. The pre-candidate PSOL for the speech of the Mayor of São Paulo, who is at the heart of his visual presentation at the Folha/UOL hearing this Friday (12), summarizes the challenge facing the federal representative.

Boulos shares the lead in the race at this point with his rival Tucano secretary Ricardo Nunes (MDB). But his central problem is not to overtake Nunes and other rivals, but to deal with the 33% refusal reported by Datafolha the week before, the highest number among the candidates.

To that end, the hearing showed a dangerous path. He promised to focus on the issue of housing, a main problem in São Paulo, and he made no mistake in diagnosing that conflicts are the result of the lack of compliance with the law, as in the case of abandoned buildings. How to solve that is the point.

As a leader of the homeless movement for the past two decades, Boulos is theoretically qualified to suggest ways forward.

Here begins the knot. A big part of his image problem is the idea that he is a radical, that he supports home invasions, that he is a troublemaker. He repeated that this is fake news, but that he cannot escape the DNA when he refuses to talk about evictions and when he is reminded of incidents in which he defended the contempt of Fiesp from his companions in 2016.

“When you are demonstrating, in the heat of the moment…”, he continued.

It is clear that the welfare, great rhetorical security behavior, no longer fall into the provocations easily. It may have evolved in certain conceptual aspects, but this is irrelevant in a campaign: it is the image that matters.

Then, Boulos, seen as an intruder, comes together with what he plans to deal with the urban chaos of São Paulo in a humane way. No one will disagree when the front-runner says he needs to provide jobs and income to get people living in tents off the street, but the problem demands urgency that the economy cannot wait on.

In addition, in addition to the softening of his image that has already occurred since 2020, Boulos showed that he was keen on specific contradictions: the case of Janones, the difficulty he will have, if elected, in his relationship with the governor Tarcísio de Freitas (Republicans).

He does better when he points out the management problems of Nunes, which contrasts the good financial situation of the municipality with its problems. And he continues to bet on polarization, talking less about the support he has from President Lula (PT) and more about the presence of Jair Bolsonaro (PL) in the preliminary campaign of the current mayor.

Again, it is uncertain. As Datafolha showed, people from São Paulo say they are more right-wing (28%) than left-wing (21%), and at least privately, many have to agree with the declaration made by the controversial vice-president Nunes , the former commander of Rota. Ricardo Mello Araújo (PL), that the police must act differently in Jardins and on the outskirts.

Here, Boulos suggests that his poor performance among the poor is due to the fact that they are not interested in campaigning today, which is true, and it remains to be seen whether he will win with his bet that the Nunes’ association with Bolsonarism and the PM. votes for him in the final piece.