With four ministries in (), the oversee between and was (29) with opposition speech, the defense of a “prosperity shock” to the country and even preventing it from having a president at this early stage.
“The state cannot remain an obstacle to prosperity,” says the manifesto of the new association.
The document also preaches fiscal and social responsibility, an administrative reform and that the state is a development inducer, but with private capital “as a engine of growth, with central protagonism in employment and income creation”. “The economy skates, and with it the well-being of Brazilians,” says the manifesto of the so-called “progressive union”.
The Lula government was not nominally cited at any time, but the veiled and even explicit criticism guided the event, held at the Black Hall of the Chamber of Deputies. The ministers of sport, André Fufuca (PP), and Tourism, Celso Sabino (União Brasil), were present, but were not called to speak.
“Brazil cannot continue without growing, Brazil cannot continue with these corruption scandals every day, Brazil cannot continue as it is,” Senator Tereza Cristina (MS), leader of the PP in and former minister Jair Bolsonaro.
The superfederation, which still needs to be approved by the party instances, will be the strongest group in Congress. It will have the largest bench in the House, with 109 federal deputies, and the Senate, with 14 senators (tied with PSD and PL). It will also have the largest portion of the party and electoral funds and the longest time of electoral propaganda on TV and radio.
Before critic of the alliance, the governor of Goiás, (União Brasil), had a prominent role in the event and was the first to speak after the presidents of the two parties. “This construction will be a major watershed,” said the governor, who received the promise of support to the Republic if he reaches at least 10% of voting intent on the polls in March 2026.
The size of the federation, said Caiado, will allow the group to have weight and be heard about the real problems of Brazil. “Today the citizen has no money to feed his family. It is that reality where violence takes over all the quadrants of this country. Where factions expand its power,” he criticized.
“In 2026, we will win those in the country and we will climb the ramp of the Planalto Palace,” he said.
Among the veiled criticism of the PT in the manifesto, for example, are the defense of the Real Plan, “contested by some in its launch”, but which in the view of the two parties was the legal framework that “allowed the country to recover stability”, and the lack of measures to incorporate social programs beneficiaries into economic activity.
Criticism in the manifesto and speeches occurred despite the participation of the two parties in the current government – and also in the previous ones, such as Michel Temer (MDB) and Bolsonaro (PL).
União Brasil indicated three ministers of the Lula administration: tourism, communications and regional development-the last two, the quota of the president of the Senate, (Brazil-AP Union). The PP has the Ministry of Sport and Caixa Econômica Federal. Apart from the ministers, no representative of the government or the PT participated in the act.
Among the guests from outside were Mayor Hugo Motta (Republicans-PB), Pará governor Helder Barbalho (MDB), and PL president, former President Bolsonaro’s party.
Internal disagreement
The new federation is born without a president ,. The former mayor (PP-AL) claimed the vacancy, but the president of União Brasil, Antonio Rueda, said he only agreed with the alliance if he assumed the function. Without agreement, Rueda and the president of PP, (PI), will make a “cogestion”.
There are also conflicts in the states and the bet that, until the election, part of the politicians of both parties will leave the acronyms. From a starter, União Brasil will have the command of nine states and the PP of nine, but nine, such as São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, will be undefined, waiting for a mediation by the new national command of the association.
Union Brazil leader in the Senate, Efraim Filho (PB) said the regional conflicts will be resolved later. “We will have all year 2025 to talk. In states where you have no agreement, the Federation will decide which project has the most electoral viability,” he said.
In the case of deputy plates, support for different candidates must be authorized to avoid loss of affiliates. This is the case, for example, from Bahia, where part of the PP bench supports Governor Jerônimo Rodrigues (PT), but União Brasil will command the Federation and is pre-candidate for the former mayor of Salvador.
“At this time, personal positions will have to be respected, but the federation’s thinking will be to act in block,” said Efraim Filho.
