Children of former councilor Milton Leite continue campaigning despite their father's arrest on suspicion of links to the PCC

Sons of former councilor Milton Leite (União Brasil), arrested on suspicion of links with the PCC (First Command of the Capital) on September 18, candidates Alexandre Leite and Milton Leite Filho, both from União Brasil, maintain posts with their father on their social networks.

Alexandre is running for a seat in Alesp (São Paulo Legislative Assembly) and Leite Filho is running for a seat in the Chamber of Deputies.

"It's arriving on October 4th with a historic vote, it's the commitment you have with me and, with Alexandre, with [former] councilor Milton Leite", says Leite Filho in a rally published on Instagram on Thursday (1st).

In the video, the campaign features an image of former coach Zagallo with the famous outburst "you're going to have to swallow me".

Councilor from 1997 to 2024, Milton Leite was the main guarantor of his children's careers.

As the Panel showed, as soon as Milton was the target of an arrest warrant, on the 17th, Alexandre sent a statement to "reassure" candidates and members of the União-PP federation. He stated that campaign commitments would be maintained and that "the recent facts do not change our work, nor the support for the candidacies".

Milton handed himself in to the police in Mogi das Cruzes on the 18th and has been in prison ever since.