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Weekly Report - 02 October 2025 (WR-25-39)
BRAZIL: De Freitas denies presidential ambitions
São Paulo’s governor Tarcísio de Freitas is often listed in opinion polls as one of the strongest potential options to run as the main right-wing candidate in the October 2026 presidential election. However, he has frequently downplayed the media speculation that he could be the political heir of former president Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2023). On 29 September, just over a year before the first-round vote, De Freitas visited Bolsonaro and reaffirmed that he would seek re-election as governor of São Paulo rather than seek the Planalto presidential palace. Following the governor’s recent insistence that he will not run for president, some media reports suggest that his political backers in centre-right parties might need to find backup options to support in 2026.
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