PDT announces withdrawal of Senate candidacy in Minas Gerais and works on bringing Aécio Neves into Kalil's ticket
oglobo27 August 2026 at 17:01
PDT announced on Thursday that it will forgo its Senate candidacy in Minas Gerais to negotiate the entry of national PDT president Aécio Neves into the ticket of former mayor of Belo Horizonte Alexandre Kalil for the state government. With this, Marcelo Heringer, brother of the president of the PDT directory in Minas Gerais, is no longer a Senate candidate. The change is significant because Aécio had decided, for the first time in 40 years, not to run for any elected position this year, breaking a sequence of candidacies and consecutive terms. Both parties published a joint statement saying they received calls from Minas Gerais leaders asking for Aécio's inclusion in the race.
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