the governor intensified the political movements to try to strengthen her allied base with an eye on the 2026 elections, when she should try to reelection in Pernambuco.
Even when he was on vacation in Canada in March, Raquel Lyra endorsed the deputy governor Priscila Krause to give possession to three new secretaries, including a former mayor whose management is suspected of creating ghost classes and a defendant for administrative misconduct.
The governor’s articulation consolidated the political alliance with the PP, led in Pernambuco by federal deputy Eduardo da Fonte, quoted to dispute the Senate in 2026 on Raquel’s plate, and brought to the allied base the party that was ally of the mayor of, (PSB), until then.
This Monday (7), the governor participates in act of affiliation of mayors to the PSD who left the PSDB on Thursday (3) after the toucan command to deliver the presidential presidency in the state to the president of the Legislative Assembly, Álvaro Porto, disaffected by Raquel Lyra. The intervention of the national PSDB in the state directory was a retaliation for the departure of the state executive of the subtitle.
In the week before the intervention in the PSDB, the PP indicated state deputy Kaio Maniçoba for the Secretariat of Tourism and Leisure. This is the first time, after two years and three months, that the government of Raquel Lyra will have a mandate politician in the first level. By forming management at the beginning, the governor indicated a preference for technical staff, which has been dissipated.
Maniçoba is defendant for administrative misconduct in the Federal Court in Pernambuco, in the civil sphere. According to the complaint of the Federal Public Prosecution Service, he improperly accumulated, for more than five months, the position of ombudsman of Sudene (Northeast Development Superintendence) with that of secretary of the Pernambuco Assembly. He left office at Sudene after being reported.
In 2017, the first class of the Federal Supreme Court rejected the complaint in the criminal sphere. According to the secretary’s defense, “the basis of the prosecution in the misconduct action is the same that the rejected in the criminal sphere was analyzed.” “The Supreme Court has already acknowledged that there was no willful omission of information or any irregularity in the conduct of Kaio Maniçoba,” says a note from the lawyers.
The defense also evaluates that the criminal decision strengthens the defense thesis in civil action in the first instance.
Another new secretary is Emmanuel Fernandes, known as Manuca, which is now head the professional development and entrepreneurship portfolio. He is former mayor of Custody, 335 km from Recife, in the state’s backlands.
Manuca was nominated by the Avante party, which was no longer part of the allied base of, Raquel Lyra’s opponent in Recife.
During Manuca’s management in custody, just over half of the municipal budget. According to the action, management would have artificially increased the number of students in EJA (teaching of youth and adults) to get more funds.
According to the prosecutors, there was the creation of “a wide hanger of jobs for teachers without minimal training, contracts without impersonality, through political indication or based on students’ regimentation, and who did not regularly perform their school functions.”
In 2021, Inep visited a visit to the municipality and excluded 8,779 from the city’s 9,500 EJA enrollment, reducing the contingent of students to 739.
In 2023, when Sheet He was in the city, the Secretary of Custody Education, Alysson de Yolanda, said that in the city “has no case of fictitious students” and is unaware of suspicions in this regard. Sought through the government, Manuca did not comment.
One of the groomsmen of the Manuca nomination was former federal deputy Sebastião Oliveira, one of the leaders of Avante in Pernambuco. In 2022, he was a candidate for deputy governor on the plate of Marília Arraes (Solidarity), defeated by Raquel Lyra in the second round.
In one of the debates, Raquel made criticism of Sebastião Oliveira, his new ally, and cited an investigation by the Federal Police about the period when he was a state secretary of transport in the government of Paulo Câmara, at the time of the PSB.
“Marília needs to answer with whom she walks. Her deputy, for example, was Paulo Câmara’s secretary of transport for more than three years, responsible for the roads of Pernambuco, investigated. There was operation of the Federal Police investigating the misuse of $ 60 million due to the work of the contour of BR-101.”
Avante also indicated the son of federal deputy Waldemar Oliveira (PE), lawyer Virgílio Oliveira, to be the new administrator of Fernando de Noronha.
Priscila Krause was responsible for taking office to Kaio Maniçoba and Manuca. When she was a state deputy, before she was a deputy governor, she used to criticize PSB’s management for ethical problems and deviations from public resources, sometimes before cases go to trial.
The deputy governor left the Citizenship Party in March and joined the PSDB. With the intervention in the Pernambuco directory, he announced that he would leave his new acronym.
