The candidate for mayor of São Paulo Guilherme Boulos (PSOL) declared in the early evening of this Sunday (27) that, despite the defeat in the elections, he is not defeated and that he sees the results of the polls as a sign of recovery for the left. 
“I’m not going to talk here about the lies and attacks that defined this election. I’m not going to talk about the electoral crime committed by the governor of São Paulo. Justice will take care of that. I’m not going to make a loser’s speech here because we lost an election, because we have recovered the dignity of the Brazilian left”, he said, amid hundreds of people, many of whom were members of grassroots movements, at Casa de Portugal, in the Liberdade neighborhood, where he spoke after the results of the polls gave victory in the capital’s elections paulista to Ricardo Nunes.
According to the PSol candidate, the ticket showed the possibility of doing politics in a different way, in which respectful dialogue predominates. “Eye to eye, debating on the field with an open chest, in the squares, in the streets, with dignity”, he pointed out. Boulos was received with slogans such as “Boulos, warrior of the Brazilian people” and spoke alongside Marta Suplicy, vice-president, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Alexandre Padilha.
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The Minister of Institutional Relations, Alexandre Padilha, who followed the results of the elections with Boulos, says he believes there was a “wave of re-elections” benefiting from the actions of the federal government. “The mayors who were in governments took advantage of the country’s economic recovery, the record increase in transfers of resources from the federal government to municipalities,” he said in a press interview.
Padilha also highlighted that for him there is no doubt about the configuration of an electoral crime in association made by governor Tarcísio de Freitasbetween Boulos and the PCC faction. Padilha highlighted that the context in which the speech took place, in the presence of Ricardo Nunes, demonstrates electoral intentions.
“The hope is that Justice will fulfill its role”, he stated, adding that everything indicates that this is false information, “so false that it did not officially file a complaint” and that, if the governor had hidden evidence that incriminated him from the authorities, would be committing malfeasance.
Earlier, the Union’s attorney general, Jorge Messias, stated that the statement by the governor of São Paulo “compromises the republican principles that should guide the electoral process”. “Such behavior cannot be ignored by the competent authorities, especially with regard to preserving the integrity of the elections”, he added, on his account on the social network X.
