The Democratic Movement Party's Senate announced on the 12th that it would elect female Senator Simone Tebet to run for the next Senate President. Labor's announcement the day before yesterday of joining democratic Senator Rodrigo Pacheo's campaign drew attention because Pacheco was a favored candidate for President Bolsonaro. Since Bolsonaro and current Senate President Davi Alcolumbre reached a consensus to support Pacheco's campaign, pro-government lawmakers in the PDP have begun to deploy their own campaign strategies.
The federal government in Senate leader Fernando Bezerra and the federal government in Congressional leader Eduardo Gomes at the request of Bolsonaro, as well as the democratic party leader Eduardo Braga, who withdrew from the race because of his lack of chances of being elected by the party. As chairman of the Senate Judiciary Constitutional Council, Simone's candidacy was seen as a matter of the PDP's desire to make its position clear and to draw a line with the presidential palace, and Simone had little chance of winning. Simone has been close to the Senate's "Reform Senate" corps and former Attorney General Serigo Moro, who supports the fight against corruption. "I am not running for the opposition candidate, the PDP does not spark competition between institutions and rights, and we understand that independence means peace, not secession," Simone said. In the House of Representatives, the PDP elected Rep. Baleia Rossi as the speaker of the House of Representatives, whose opponent was Arthur Lira, the leader of the "Neutral Caucus" and a member of the Progressives Party. The Labour Party, which did not want to see the PDP control both houses, supported Rossi in the House of Representatives, but chose Pacheco in the House of Representatives. When Bolsonaro interacted with fans in front of the presidential residence on the 12th, he teased the Labor Party for supporting his favored candidate.
Since losing to Okorombli in the 2019 Senate President campaign, the largest party in the Senate, the PDP, is interested in regaining control of the Senate. The PDP also co-opted two new senators on the 12th, Namely Veneziano Rego, who quit the Brazilian Socialist Party, and rose Freitas, a former Senator from the Forces Party, and now the number of Senate seats in the PDP has increased from 13 to 15. The Senate President campaign will be held in early February, and the Senate President has the power to arrange bills and constitutional amendments on the agenda, as well as to seal and agree to accept impeachment. The results of the campaign will have a certain impact on the power layout of the 2022 presidential campaign. Simone claimed to be trying to ally with the Forces, The Democrats, The Civics and Social Liberals and to mobilize MPs who had already announced their support for Pacheco's campaign to change their minds. But the problem is that Pacheco's advantage is very obvious, and one of the members of the "neutral party group" is the Liberal Party, which announced its support for Pacheco on the 12th. At this point, Pacheco's campaign included the Labour Party, the Democratic Socialist Party, the Socialist Liberal Party, the Republican Party and the Liberal Party. The Progressives Party will announce its support for Pacheco on the 13th. If there are no changes, 38 of the 81 senators will support Pacheco's campaign. Any candidate who receives 41 votes in support will win the race. In addition, the Senate rule that the results of the election are calculated on the basis of the number of senators voting on the spot may provide an opportunity for Pacheco to win. Due to the epidemic, some MPs may not be able to appear on the voting ground.
Faced with the provision that the election of the speaker of the two houses must be voted on the spot, Meier said on the 12th that high-risk members of the new crown can choose video voting. Opposition has emerged at the presidium meeting of the House of Representatives, and so far there has been no consensus to hold a vote on the 1st or 2nd. In addition, 32 members of the House of Representatives of the Social Liberal Party, who have announced their membership in Rossi's camp, have signed documents supporting the Lira campaign, including 17 suspended members, whose signatures are valid.