The Minister of Institutional Relations, (PT), confirmed on Thursday (10) that the leader of the House, Pedro Lucas (MA), will be the new Minister of Communications of the Government (PT).
The deputy asked to take office after the Easter holiday, when his appointment should officially leave. According to the minister, he requested the period to send personal and leadership issues. Until then, the Ministry’s executive secretary, Sônia Faustino Mendes.
“União Brasil presents the name of Pedro Lucas to replace Minister Juscelino in the communications. The president accepted and also invited the leader to take over, Pedro Lucas. Pedro Lucas only asked until after the Easter to take over the ministry, because he has to send some personal issues in office and in relation to the leadership of the bench. Gleisi.
The announcement came after the president meets with the deputy, Gleisi, Minister Rui Costa (House Civil), the president of, (União Brasil-AP), and former Minister Juscelino Filho (União Brasil-MA).
Pedro Lucas is from the ruling wing of União Brasil and was president of the Metropolitan Executive Agency during the administration in the government of Maranhão. In his second term in the House, he assumed the leadership of the subtitle in the House this year. He is considered the closest parliamentarian of the national president of União Brasil, Antonio Rueda.
He enters the place of Juscelino, who left the terrace on Tuesday (8), after being (Attorney General’s Office), on charges. Juscelino resumed the mandate of federal deputy on the same day he left the executive.
Pedro Lucas’s choice, however, cracked the party, which is divided between an opposition wing and another more ruling. On the one hand, members of the subtitle defended greater distance from the executive, already eyeing 2026-in the beginning of the month, the governor of Goiás, Ronaldo Caiado, launched his presidential candidacy.
These party members also evaluated that a name is such a name to Reda formally integrated the government. In addition to communications, União Brasil has indications in the Tourism and Regional Development folders.
In addition, deputies raised doubts about the leader’s trip to the ministry for believing that this could lead to difficulties in dispute for the position of party leadership in the House. This is because the process that led the deputy to the position of leader dragged on for three months in the face of the lack of consensus around his name.
Alcolumbre defends Juscelino’s name to the post, but the former minister does not have enough support among party colleagues. Since Tuesday, with the departure of Juscelino, members of União Brasil have participated in a series of meetings to define who will be the new leader-but there is still no definite name.
An ally of Pedro Lucas acknowledges that there will be difficulties to create consensus around a new bench leader, but says that after Lula’s public statement about the parliamentarian it would be difficult to reverse his nomination to the Esplanade.
To build the new agreement on the leadership, the government allowed the new minister to take office only after Easter. Among the favorites to succeed him in the lead is Deputy Moses Rodrigues (CE).
He weighed on the choice to enter the government’s willingness to become Lula’s minister, which will expand the prestige at his electoral base, Maranhão, where the petista is supported by the majority of the population. The position can also project it to a Senate dispute.
In 2022, he received almost 160,000 votes, being the second most voted in the state. Before, he was councilor of the capital of Maranhão for two other periods, at the time affiliated to (today PRD).
On Wednesday (9), when Lula cited the name of the deputy as the first option for the ministry, stating that to discuss the possible appointment of Pedro Lucas.
“União Brasil has the right to refer me to a successor to Juscelino, who is from União Brasil. I already have a name, I know Pedro Lucas, tomorrow morning I will talk to União Brasil and, if it is the case we discuss his appointment,” said Lula.
Recently, the Union Brazil leader to accompany the President of the Republic on a mission to Japan and Vietnam – he even participated in more reserved meetings with the petista on the trip. According to Lula’s allies, the petista liked the deputy. There is also a positive assessment of his performance at the head of the leadership of the party among government parliamentarians.
Juscelino’s removal from the ministry’s leadership was a promise of Lula after the Federal Police was completed in June 2024 that the minister was part of a criminal organization. At the time, the president said he would remove him if he was reported.
Earlier, former mayor Arthur Lira (PP-AL) and Sport Minister André Fufuca-PP’s Blacks were also at the Dawn Palace. However, Gleisi stated that the two did not attend the meeting with the new minister and was not discussed about the PP space in government reform.
Asked about the signing of government deputies of the Government base in support of the project that asks the amnesty to those involved in the January 8 attacks, Gleisi said he believed that there are many “unsuspecting” parliamentarians on the project theme.
“I trust President Hugo Motta’s word a lot that this project will not vote, because if it is, it creates an institutional crisis, as he said. I think the signatures that some parliamentarians are making the parties, there are many who are even unsuspecting about the content of the project,” he said.
“[Alguns] They really want a mediation with those penalties for those who participated in those acts of January 8, but the project that is there, I will repeat here, is a project that gives amnesty to Bolsonaro and generals. This is not explicit when we talk to some parliamentarians. “
