The appropriation of budget amendments caused a radical disruption in relations between the Executive and the Legislative. Over the last decade, parliamentarians managed to guarantee a large budget for their political strongholds without depending on the generosity of the president or his ministers.
In this process, control of offices on the Esplanada dos Ministérios became worth less to party groups in extracting the benefits of power. The appointment of members to the first level still offers prestige and access to public money, but is no longer an absolute factor in negotiations for the formation of political coalitions.
The logic had a turning point with Jair Bolsonaro, who promoted the moral principle of limiting party access to the Esplanada, while handing over the positions to other interest groups in his coalition, such as the military, evangelicals and ruralists. To gain political support in voting, .
faces a slightly different picture. The president shared positions that did not prove to be as effective as in his previous terms. He maintained attractive positions in the hands of and appointed some ministers from other parties who proved to be of little influence in the discipline of the benches in votes in Congress.
The main reason is that the center learned to feed on amendments. The crisis in the distribution of this budget adds an element of uncertainty to the future of the government’s relations with Congress, with possible repercussions on the ministerial reform that Lula intends to carry out in the first months of this new year.
Lula told aides that and signaled that the PT could be forced to give way to other parties. The president, however, may be forced to make a bigger change if the center sees an opportunity at this time to diversify its power tools and demand a reconfiguration of the government coalition based on ministries.
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