Twelve days after being announced as a new Minister of the Lula Government (PT), Federal Deputy Pedro Lucas Fernandes (-MA) confusing the refusal to take over the Ministry of Communications on Tuesday. The decision causes public embarrassment to the government, which of the ministries, and exposes weaknesses of support of the petista.
“My most sincere excuses to President Lula for not being able to meet this invitation. I receive his gesture with gratitude and reaffirm my willingness to institutional dialogue, always in favor of Brazil,” said the parliamentarian in the note he announces that he will continue as a party leader in the House.
Pedro Lucas was announced by the government to replace in the communications portfolio on the 10th, after the co-religionist was (Attorney General’s Office), on charges.
The announcement had been made by Minister Gleisi Hoffmann (Secretariat of Institutional Relations) with Lula, the president of, (União Brasil-AP), and Juscelino. Earlier, alcoholBre had called the President of the Republic stating that the deputy was the name nominated by the party to occupy the post.
“Pedro Lucas only asked until after Easter to take over the ministry because he has to send some personal issues,” said Gleisi at the time.
The day after the meeting at Alvorada, however, the deputy issued a statement stating that the party in the House before making any decision, as he is the leader of União Brasil at the house.
As Sheet He anticipated, he had already, during these conversations, that he would refuse the invitation to avoid a dispute on the bench that could weaken his political group, linked to the party’s national president, Antonio Rueda.
“I am the leader of a Plural Party, with a diverse and committed bench with Brazil. I am fully convinced that, at this moment, I can contribute more to the country and the government itself in the function I hold in the House of Representatives,” said Pedro Lucas in the note.
The withdrawal was interpreted in different ways in the government, which was annoyed by the embarrassment to the president and evaluates to review the acronym space – also responsible for the indications of the Ministers of Tourism and Regional Development.
A Minister of the Planalto Palace indicated that the Ministry of Communications could be directed to another party and said that in politics there are no empty spaces. The PSD bench in the House, for example, has complained about the space it has in the Ministry of Fisheries and is aiming for tourism, headed by União Brasil.
Two other ministers heard by the report sought to minimize any damage to the government’s image and said the impaired real would be the party, which again exposed his publicly disagreement publicly. The executive was only officially warned of the retreat on Tuesday night, after learning from the press press.
Petistas, however, recognize that this shuttle was poorly led by the palace. Resultingly, they say that this exposes a failure in the government’s political strategy, as Pedro Lucas’s meeting with Lula should have occurred only after the invitation is properly accepted.
Despite the pressures for retaliation, an minister argues that the executive does not make any decision that may further tensate the relationship with the party in Congress. União Brasil has the third largest bench in the House (with 59 deputies) and seven senators, one of them alcolumbre, and wants to keep the command of the ministry. Most likely it is now suggesting a “technical name” that is not a parliamentary.
In União Brasil, part of the deputies attributed the impasse to a political error of the current leader, who did not properly evaluate the difficulties before telling the government that would accept the position, and part credited this error to alcohubre.
The president of the Senate tried to force an agreement for Juscelino Filho to assume as leader of the bench, which caused an internal rebellion and accusations that the senator was trying to interfere with the House. The relationship between him and Rueda was also deteriorated after the confusion about the minister’s choice.
Pedro Lucas’s permanence as a party leader in the House, on the other hand, can help the government by preventing any opposition deputy from taking over the function.
He made the decision to remain in office precisely to prevent another rival group from being able to elect the bench’s representative and thus reduce the power of the party’s president over parliamentarians.
The election of Pedro Lucas himself took three months of negotiations, in a clash with the political group most linked to alcohumbre and the subtitle wing that defends the removal of the Lula administration. Rueda’s group prevailed after several postponements of the internal election, with the withdrawal of the opponents.
União Brasil is marked by divisions. as a right-wing center caption. Today, there is a more ruling wing and another oppositionist.
Formally, the acronym integrates the government because it has two other ministries, in addition to communications: tourism and regional development. In the House, it has the third largest bench (with 59 deputies) and, in the Senate, 7 senators.
Since the end of the year, the acronym has been criticized by governors for the shy performance in voting considered priority to the Planalto Palace in the House. Recently, 40 of the 59 deputies of the bench signed an urgent request for the bill that gives amnesty to the January 8 convicts, a project that the government is frontally against.
During an event this Tuesday alongside Chilean President Gabriel Boric, Lula referred to his situation of governability in Congress and, without mentioning the case of União Brasil, highlighted what he considers important victories in the Legislature: the approval of tax reform and the tax framework.
“Even in this theoretically adverse political world, so far we have approved more than any other government,” he said.
