When speaking to the future president of , , the president () resorted to a scenario widely explored by his predecessor, (PL), in recordings and live broadcasts on social media: the library at Palácio da Alvorada.
In a message to the financial market, the Palácio do Planalto released on Friday (20) a video in which Lula tells Galípolo that he will be the “president with the most autonomy that the Central Bank has ever had”.
Government officials reject any comparison with Bolsonaro’s lives. Privately, a member of the government states that the recording took advantage of the fact that Galípolo went to Alvorada, for lunch with government ministers. And, at the official residence, the library would be the best place for recording, due to its aesthetics and because it is silent.
In addition to the president and Galípolo, three of the most important ministers of the Esplanada dos Ministérios appear in the video: , of Finance, , of the Civil House, and , of Planning. The three just listen to Lula’s good wishes to the future president of the BC.
The Palácio da Alvorada library was the setting for the vast majority of the once-a-week events. The former president used to appear alongside ministers, his children and other first-time allies, such as the then president of Caixa Pedro Guimarães.
As part of the investigation investigating the attempted coup. According to investigators, the broadcasts helped propagate the idea that there is fraud in the electoral system so that the false narrative would not appear to be casuistic after an eventual defeat.
In the case of the current government, the recording — made at the end of a week in which the — took place in response to the financial market. In addition to promising autonomy to the BC, Lula says that the government sought to protect the new fiscal rule and will remain attentive “to the needs for new measures.”
“I wanted to tell Galípolo that we remain more convinced than ever that economic stability and the fight against inflation are the most important things to protect the salaries and purchasing power of Brazilian families”, said the president alongside the three ministers.
The recording was released a few hours after the approval in the Senate of (considered the pillar of the measures, due to the limit on minimum wage earnings), and the one that changes the criteria for granting the salary bonus.
The video is also published amid a moment of recognition that management communication has had problems and needs to change. “There is a mistake on the part of the government on the issue of communication and I am obliged to make the necessary corrections,” said Lula at a PT event at the beginning of the month.
Haddad also cited communication problems on Friday, saying that the rise in the dollar occurred after the leak of measures that would be announced later by the government — in reference to the news of the expansion of the Income Tax exemption, which would have forced the Treasury to have We have to explain the initiative after a negative reaction already consolidated in the market.
“There was a communication problem at the end of the year that caused the dollar in Brazil to appreciate more strongly than among its peers. So it is necessary to correct communication, take measures — because it is not just communication, it is necessary to take measures — and ensure that this brings the exchange rate not to a specific level but to a functional situation”, said the minister.
The government must even make a change in Secom (Secretariat of Social Communication of the Presidency of the Republic). The departure of the current minister, Paulo Pimenta, is taken for granted. Marketer Sidônio Palmeira, tipped to replace Pimenta, at the end of the year.
Political scientist and lawyer Nauê Bernardo Pinheiro de Azevedo believes that the comparison between the aesthetics of Lula and Bolsonaro’s videos is inevitable, since the scenario was used extensively by Bolsonaro for four years. Despite this, he sees Lula’s recording as punctual and assesses that there are differences between the two messages.
“The comparison is inevitable, after all, we spent four years seeing public assets being used on a weekly basis in lives that were often personal to the former president. However, we need to consider the quality of what was said. A institutional message”, he states.
The Palácio do Planalto was searched this Saturday (21), but there was no response until the publication of this text.
