 The formation of the political alliance for the 2000 Porto Alegre mayoral election was also a cause of friction among the two parties.They ended up launching each own a different candidate; PDT's was Collares and PT's was Tarso Genro.Rousseff defended the maintenance of the alliance which had elected Dutra, supporting Genro's candidacy, and claiming she would not accept "neoliberal alliances with the right-wing".