Elected with the third largest score in history, the new president of, (-ap), promised pacification and construction of bridges, but made it clear to colleagues parliamentarians that, between Lula and PL, will choose to defend the interests of Congress.
Lula government members do not hide a certain distrust. Alcolumbre returns to the presidency of the Senate with the support of Bolsonaro and already eyeing the reelection of office in 2027. To retain internal support, he will seek to honor the promise that the opposition will have what he wants: space to try to wear out the government in a decisive year for the next presidential dispute.
A senator close to Alcolumbre adds that it is clear that he intends to treat Lula without intermediaries. Therefore, he says, the success of the government in Congress will depend directly on the interlocution of the petista with the new president of the Senate.
Alcolumbre tries to decrease suspicions. In one of the conversations he had with the Senate government leader (PT), he argued that, in his first term as president, did not disturb Bolsonaro because he did not fit him to make the work of the winner of the election difficult. Now, he went on, who won was Lula.
The after victory, on Saturday (1st), emphatically. “No senator, no senator, has the authority of disturbing the government’s agenda. The government will have its agenda fully respected,” he said.
The government has seen the nod, but knows that the Senator for Amapá has no shame to say what he wants – and, as a rule, has little wishes. Alcolumbre is godfather of the nomination of two ministers and a list of.
The senator raised power among colleagues not only by the liquidator profile, solving problems of all kinds, but also for the distribution of a billionaire slice of the public budget, which does not want to give up.
As president of the Senate from 2019 to 2021, Alcolumbre helped to establish, with the endorsement of Bolsonaro, a voluminous distribution mechanism of parliamentary amendments to the strongholds of deputies and senators. Today, the use of the tool is the reason for a battle between Congress and (Supreme Federal Court).
The defense of alcohumbre amendments after the victory. A person close to the new president goes further: he says that while Congress has no guarantee that he will keep power over money, the government should not expect anything for free from the Senate.
Not even the Federal Police seems to make the senator change his mind. The Alcolumbre Party, União Brasil, in December. The senator is not quoted, but showed that his chief of staff helped unlock the bureaucracy of amendments to a group of entrepreneurs arrested.
In addition to control over the budget, electoral factors should dictate the pace of the relationship. An ally from Lula says, under reserve, that Planalto knows that Amapaense should not lose sight of the president’s popularity. At the moment of current difficulty, the assessment is that alcohumbre will not seek the break, but will not stop playing confetti for the opposition.
The style of alcohumbre was marked by his management as president of the CCJ (Constitution and Justice Commission), from 2021 to 2024. The senator established a mantra: everything is voted, and who has a vote leads. This is how the Commission approved controversial proposals, such as chemical castration for rapists and the legalization of casinos.
The maxim, on the other hand, did not prevent him from exploring the power of president of the Senate’s most important committee. In 2021, Alcolumbre even challenged a future STF minister by leaving Bolsonaro’s nominee, waiting for four months to be sabbathed.
In the campaign to return to the presidency of the Senate, Alcolumbre resorted to the mantra again. With Bolsonaro, it made it clear that he will not counteract the vote of anything. With Lula, he said he had no commitment to amnesty to the January 8 scammers.
Opposition members admit, in privately, that they are unable to approve the amnesty over the next two years, let alone the impeachment of STF ministers. First, because there are no votes – an accurate that can change only with the two -thirds renewal of the Senate next year.
Second, because – less not in this mandate. The government also has the friendship between Alcolumbre and STF Minister Alexandre de Moraes to curb the amnesty to the scammers and Bolsonaro himself, who is ineligible.
A Sheet He talked to 14 senators about what to expect from the alcohumbre presidency. He heard from the majority that Amapaense returns to the most calibrated, tried and balanced position.
It also contributes to the assessment that the second term will be moderate that the two main committees, the CCJ and the CAE (Economic Affairs Commission), will be in the hands of two of the experienced and close senators of the Planalto, (-BA) and (-al).
The opposition promises to make noise with the prospect of presiding over the Public Security Commission with (PL-RJ)-and mark a position against Lula in one of the subjects considered most sensitive by the population.
Under the sign of equilibrium, Alcolumbre also promised to resolve one of the Senate’s main points of discomfort: the loss of powers for a. The senator said he will talk to (-PB) about the rite of processing the provisional measures, suspended by the willingness of Arthur Lira (PP-AL), and defending the Senate.
In addition to being admittedly corporatist, the senator pleases his colleagues for his style. It is more informal, direct and expansive than the predecessor (PSD-MG). Less disciplined but compliant of agreements. Even friends joke that the president of Congress looks like a councilman – who is not said to be critical.
