Given the unfeasibility of (), ineligible until 2030, represent the right in the 2026 elections and the advance of the trial of the coup plot in the (Supreme Court), the pressure of opposition governors to the President () grows in a scenario that includes the dispute over the former president’s estate.
In recent weeks, the governors of, Tarcísio de Freitas (), Minas Gerais, Romeu Zema (), Rio de Janeiro, Claudio Castro (PL), and, Ibaneis Rocha (), made public attacks on Lula, which also faces and criticism of Alas on the left.
See recent manifestations of opposition politicians against Lula.
During an act with Bolsonaro in Copacabana last Sunday (16), Tarcísio de Freitas raised his tone against the Lula administration.
“No one can handle expensive rice, expensive gasoline, the expensive egg. They promised picanha and has no egg. And if it’s all expensive, Bolsonaro comes back,” said the governor.
He also attacked the petista remembering cases of corruption linked to the party in.
According to allies, Tarcisio has already admitted that he could run for presidency in 2026, although.
Tom’s climb at Sunday was read by Bolsonarists as welcome, and can be the governor’s strategy to strengthen his name as the main candidate to occupy Bolsonaro’s vacancy on the right.
Also quoted for the Plateau dispute in 2026, Romeu Zema exchanged public barbs with Lula during an event on the last day 11 in Betim (MG).
They participated in the inauguration of a mobility center when the governor criticized the petista to imply that the federal government had a swollen number of ministries.
“Although we are the second most populous state in Brazil, we are the one with the lowest number of secretariats: 14. But for team to win championship, it doesn’t need 20, 30 players on the field, no. It needs 11 stars and that’s what we have done here,” said Zema.
Lula countered by saying that the “important thing is to discuss the quality of the people you have, the commitments that people have”, not the amount of them.
The miner also defended the Propag (full debt payment program), vetoed in part by Lula.
On Monday (17), Zema published on social networks phrase that attributed Winston Churchill about humans to allow a “stupid lead to send her.” If the publication was aimed at the president, but got no response.
Also on Monday, Ibaneis Rocha said he missed the president. “Do not walk on Lula’s devastated land” ,.
He sent a message to Beto Simonetti, president of the OAB Federal Council, justifying the absence. In it, he stated that Lula accused him “lightly” at being an accomplice of Bolsonaro on January 8.
The politician also said he will not attend events with Lula until he retracts. The president has already stated that Ibaneis was complicit and negligent in the case. The Supreme Court, however, filed the investigation that investigated the governor’s performance in the coup attacks.
On the 12th, Claudio Castro stated that the federal government committed an “unkindness” and one as it did not invite it to participate in after asking for help to hold the event in November 2024 in the capital of Rio.
“Who committed unique unkindness, even an institutional break, was the federal government when not inviting the State Governor to go to the G20 even though he asked for help from R $ 40 million to the social G20, even having charged, requested help in public safety. Who committed unkindness, a lack of education and an institutional disruption was the federal government for the state government, not understanding that the G20 was an institutional place,” Castro said, ” Portal Metropolis.
He also criticized the performance of Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira, saying that the chancellor is “very weak.”
Prior to that, from the absence of Castro in an event in the state capital. “He was invited to come here and invite everyone, even those who irresponsibly criticize my government,” said the petista in February.
