‘In order to continue to change Brazil, the PT needs to change, it needs to advance without losing sight of its essence; I have recommended to the companions to read the PT’s creation manifesto, ‘he said
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva stated, on Saturday morning (22), that the Workers Party needs to “change”, “advance without losing its essence” and “return to dialogue with the working class and the periphery.” In a statement at the 45th anniversary of Rio de Janeiro, the president also said that co -religionists need to turn to the party’s foundation manifesto and resume practices that led the acronym to win five presidential elections.
“PT is an idea that has become a cause. And who has a cause, whether a human being or a political party, never ages and never loses the reason for its existence. In these 45 years of history, we face huge challenges, but no challenge is greater than our fighting capacity, ”said the president.
Second, the party needs to worry again about the worker’s “day-to-day life.” “In order to continue to change Brazil, the PT needs to change, it needs to advance without losing sight of its essence. I have recommended my companions to read the PT’s creation manifesto. ”
“The truth is that we need to discuss politics again within factories, in the workplace, where the working class is in the city and in the countryside. We need to go back to the periphery, ”he added.
According to the president, the party needs to resume practices such as organization in sectoral and community centers, and the participatory budget that led him to become one of the largest parties in the country.
“The PT was organized by nuclei. They were nuclei by neighborhoods, cores by workplace, nuclei by study sites, and I remember that we had 1,600 party centers organized by various categories. Regrettably, this is no longer a practice. Another thing that the PT made history was the participatory budget, which in many places no longer existed, ”he said.
Lula says that even his own ministry knows the actions of the government
In the same solemnity, president showed dissatisfaction with his ministers. Lula said that not even the first echelon of the executive knows the actions of his government. This lack of information, he said, reduces the ability of petist militants to defend their management.
“It is up to the government to do the right things and give you the information. Because the government that gives no information sometimes has no militant defending. And I know we didn’t give information. I had a ministerial meeting for about 20 days. I found at the meeting that my government’s ministry does not know what we are doing. If the ministry does not know, the people much less, ”said the President of the Republic.
The petista stated that the opposition uses the lie as a weapon, and that the country has a radicalized extreme right that needs to be faced. He also said that it is necessary to praise democracy without bravado. Lula said he will defend this regime “anywhere on planet Earth.” According to him, 2026 will be the year to “defeat the lie” in Brazil and worldwide.
Criticism of Trump and owners of social networks
The president criticized US President Donald Trump. .
“This citizen was not elected to be the sheriff of the world. Who will govern Brazil are us. No one, nor these platform producers (social networks) who think they send in the world, will make us change in this country. It is no use threatening for the court, it is no use chasing Alexandre de Moraes. We have to congratulate Alexandre de Moraes and the Attorney General of the Republic for the complaints against the coup, ”he said.
The president’s speech referred to the United States court action that Mira Moraes, claiming that the STF minister violated American sovereignty by ordering suspension of the profiles of the scholarship Allan dos Santos, who lives in the country.
He also mentions the complaint of the Attorney General, Paulo Gonet, who points to former President Jair Bolsonaro as a ‘leader’ of a coup plan after the 2022 election defeat.
Compliments to Gleisi Hoffmann
The expectation within the party is for the president to make a nod to the PT national president, Deputy Gleisi Hoffmann, on the ministerial reform scheduled for next month. Lula praised Gleisi’s trajectory, but did not comment on her possible entry into the first echelon of the government.
“I remember that when Gleisi was playing the PT election, a lot of people didn’t want to vote for her because she was very narrow, she only talks to the bubble, they invented even Lindbergh to play with her. I said, `Guys, we need someone who tells the PT,” said Lula
The deputy’s expected trip to the first level, as Estadão said, in place of Márcio Macêdo, demanded an arrangement in the PT itself. Gleisi’s nomination for the Ministries Esplanade should take place in the ministerial reform expected to take place at the beginning of next month.
On the eve of a ministerial reform, 11 of the 38 ministers were next to Lula on the stage set in warehouse 3 of Pier Mauá: Anielle Franco (racial equality), Camilo Santana (Education), Ester Dweck (Management and Innovation in Public Services), Fernando Haddad (Farm), Márcio Macedo (General Secretariat of the Presidency), Paulo Teixeira (Agrarian Development and Family Farming), Rui Costa (Civil House), Cida Gonçalves (women), Alexandre Padilha (Secretariat of Institutional Relations), Luiz Marinho (work) and Nísia Trindade (Health). As shown by Estadão, Nisia’s departure is given as a certain and his replacement must be the minister of the Secretariat of Institutional Relations, Alexandre Padilha.
The president of the PT, in turn, criticized the government of former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) and said that the increase in food price, cited as one of President Lula’s concerns, is “result of dollar speculation, increase exports and climate crisis ”.
“The PT alternatives that the powerful promoted resulted in disastrous governments and terrible threats to democracy. This being (Bolsonaro) is now denounced. And in the 45 years of PT, it is a gift for democracy this denounce against Bolsonaro. With evidence and a lot of material produced by his minions, Bolsonaro will sit on the defendants’ bench. It will be tried in due process of law, which would not happen if he won the election. It’s without amnesty for Bolsonaro and those who practiced January 8, ”said Gleisi.
Yesterday, Lula mentioned at the granting ceremony of a terminal in the port of Itaguaí (RJ), which, from time to time, misses the choice of ministers. The statement comes at the time the government discusses an expected ministerial reform for the coming days.
*With information from Estadão Content
Posted by Carolina Ferreira
