Bolsonaro supporters open friendly fire and criticize Flávio’s pre-campaign

YouTubers Paulo Figueiredo and Kim Paim, linked to former federal deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro (PL), and Fabio Wajngarten, former Secretary of Communication under the Bolsonaro administration, claim that the team leading the pre-campaign is incompetent.

There is also criticism regarding Flávio's supposed distancing from the Bolsonarist DNA, considering that the campaign strategy involves the senator making nods to the center to advance undecided voters.

Members did not respond publicly to the criticism. Under reservation, two told Folha that the speeches are motivated by resentment from those outside the campaign and that they will be ignored. They assess that Eduardo is not involved in this movement.

"Flávio's campaign does not exist. It has no agenda. It has no communication. It has no organization. It has no planning", wrote Wajngarten in X this Wednesday (8).

The former secretary, dismissed from the PL in 2025 amid the publication of messages criticizing a possible candidacy of former first lady Michelle Bolsonaro (PL) for the Presidency, suggested some changes in the team.

He proposes, for example, that the general coordinator be Marcello Lopes, known as Marcellão, publicist, former police officer and friend of Flávio, who left the campaign amid the crisis involving the film "Dark Horse" and Daniel Vorcaro, from Banco Master.

Wajngarten also suggests the return of Toninho Neto and Walter Longo, who opposed the hiring of publicist Eduardo Fischer as a strategic communications consultant. The former secretary also asks for the entry of Duda Lima, PL's marketer - people close to him have been saying for months that he is not interested.

"Nominally empower great Catholic, evangelical, agricultural, public security, medical, education, retail development leaders, for weekly meetings with daily updates. No more mistakes, no more noise, no more people who don't know or like Bolsonarism."

In a video published on Tuesday, Paulo Figueiredo, who recently caused a problem in Flávio's pre-campaign by saying that women don't know how to vote, stated that there is a "communication disaster" and that the campaign is "bland" and is too concerned with the press.

"There is no point in Flávio Bolsonaro playing with the characteristics of a candidate who has 3% at the polls. Flávio has to play with the characteristics of Bolsonarism," he said. "Imagine if [Jair] Bolsonaro would have had any shame in talking about the obvious bias of female suffrage and what that represents. I miss him who said he didn't want to have a 'faggot' son, I miss this Bolsonarism."

Figueiredo complained about what he considered a lack of agility in publishing a press release after Flávio's speech at the hearing in the USA. "Then we lose and we don't know why the militancy is disengaged, why it takes 7 to 1 in the press every day," he said.

Paim, who has almost 1 million subscribers on YouTube, criticized members of the pre-campaign by name, saying, for example, that the general coordinator, senator Rogério Marinho (PL), "is hallucinated by power". The reporter contacted Marinho, who did not respond.

"What do people have to promote Flávio? Nothing. There is no material being generated," said Paim.

The YouTuber also shared an article from the Metrópoles portal about the participation of Vicente Santini, one of Flávio's pre-campaign coordinators, in an event in the United States with the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, and businessman Joesley Batista, from J&F. Joesley was appointed as intermediary for the meeting between presidents Lula (PT) and Donald Trump, in May.

"Is it normal for a guy like that to take care of Flávio's agenda? And don't you think it's even weirder when you look and see that Flávio doesn't have an agenda? He's clearly being sabotaged," said Paim. When contacted by the report, Santini did not respond to the YouTuber's criticisms.

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