The relationship between the Government (PT) and suffered it shaking on the eve of the ministerial reform, after the party president, conducted by the minister (PT).
President Lula’s allies have seen in the statements a sign that the PSD’s support is not guaranteed to his reelection even though they already occupy three ministries, as well as the threat that the party will take advantage of the executive’s fragility moment to broaden his space on the esplanade.
Kassab’s statements, on Wednesday (29), occurred on the same day that (PSD-AM) criticized the choice of PT president, Gleisi Hoffmann (PR), to the General Secretariat of the Presidency.
The president has already warned allies that he will assume a ministry in the reform that should be started from next week, with the end of the election to the command of the House and.
President’s interlocutors identify in Kassab’s criticism an nod to the government’s Bolsonarist market base. Kassab is Secretary of Management Government (Republicans).
On Wednesday, he said Haddad is weak in conducting, compared to occupants of office in past governments, including other Lula’s mandates and even the military dictatorship.
“What we see today is a difficulty of Minister Haddad to command. A weak economy minister is always a bad indicative,” he said during an investment bank UBS BB event in Sao Paulo.
Kassab also said that “o would not be in the condition of favorite, but defeated,” if the presidential elections were today.
In the Planalto Palace, the speech was received as a warning that the PSD did not accept the loss of strategic posts. In his conversations, Kassab has made it clear that he opposes, for example, to the hypothesis of resignation of the Minister of Mines and Energy, Alexandre Silveira (PSD), whose post is sought by the Senate summit.
Lula’s allies have been betting on Silveira’s recommodation in a position as the president’s personal quota. Among the possibilities at the Bureau would be his appointment at the Secretariat of Institutional Relations, today headed by the Minister (PT) – that, in turn, would assume the Ministry of Health.
Petistas came out in defense of Haddad. The Minister of Agrarian Development, Paulo Teixeira, praised, on social networks, the performance of the Minister of Finance.
“Strange it would be if Governor Tarcisio’s political articulator praised the successful work at the head of the Ministry of Finance. Records in job creation, decreased poverty, tax reform… There are so many victories that should even irritate opposition,” he said.
State Representative Emídio de Souza (PT-SP) said that “Kassab is weak of memory”. He added: “Haddad is the minister who after almost forty years approved the tax reform, made the country grow 7% in two years, rebuked the public accounts that Bolsonaro and [Paulo] Guedes had disorganized, “he said.
Coordinator of the Prerogatives Group, lawyer Marco Aurélio de Carvalho said this was an extemporaneous and unfair criticism that has merely electoral motivation. “I don’t know if it was just to please the Tarcisio government’s Bolsonarist base or if Kassab projects a hypothetical dispute [com Haddad] For 2026, “he said.
Sought by SheetKassab reiterated his assessment, but said he never supposed that his statements would produce Lula government reaction. The PSD president said this was a simple analysis in response to investor questions about the economic scenario.
“If there’s someone who cheers for Brazil, everyone knows it’s me. But I can’t help saying what I’m seeing. At no time did I want to assault anyone or the government.”
On Wednesday, the absence of an exponent of the PSD in ceremony at the Planalto Palace caused a malaise among Lula’s allies. The Paraná Governor (PSD) did not attend the Investment Announcement event for Highway of Paraná.
“Sometimes it is difficult for some prisoners of polarization who do not recognize, but president follows republican and always working in partnership,” said BNDES President Aloizio Mercadante.
At the end of the event, questioned by journalists if Mouse would be one of those governors, Mercadante said he did not cite any specifically.
On Wednesday, in an interview with UOL, Senator Omar Aziz said Gleisi’s arrival at the Esplanade “will not be good for the president” because she “is militant.” “Gleisi criticizes Haddad … How will you put a minister who criticizes another minister?”
At the General Secretariat of the Presidency, the PT president would occupy a cabinet inside the Planalto Palace and would have among its attributions the relationship with social movements.
Lula called Gleisi for two conversations last week. In one of them, the president stated that his name was being defended to the ministry. The president of the PT would have said, in response, that the President of the Republic does not invite, mandates.
In recent days, Gleisi has denied interlocutors who had already been invited. But the news was passed on by Lula himself to strategic names of his surroundings.
