Márcia Lopes, former Minister of Social Development and Hunger Fighting, is quoted to the Ministry of Women in place of Cida Gonçalves, according to Allies of the President ().
Social worker and teacher, Marcia was one of the coordinators of the transitional government, alongside the minister (planning) and former Minister Tereza Campello. He is also sister of the current national secretary of popular and solidary economy of the Ministry of Labor, Gilberto Carvalho, who is also former general secretary of the presidency.
In 2012, she was a candidate for Londrina City Hall (PR) by the PT, arriving in third place.
Marcia’s choice for the position, if confirmed, will represent the resumption of Lula’s ministerial reform since last year, but carried out slowly, in one of the government in this second half of the term.
Marcia held different positions at the Ministry of Social Development and Fighting Hunger during Lula’s second term, reaching the post of Minister in 2010.
In addition to the departure of Cida, the president’s allies bet on replacing the secretary general of the presidency, Márcio Macêdo. Lula complains about his performance, according to reports from his interlocutors.
The deputy (-SP) remains quoted for the vacancy. One of the obstacles to his choice would be, however, his candidacy for the House of Representatives in 2026, which would prevent his stay in office during the next elections.
Initially planned after last year’s election, ministerial reform has been going on for six months.
In 2024, Lula’s allies stated that it would be held from the correlation of forces leaving the ballot box in the October elections to prepare the government and the PT for the 2026 presidential race.
Then, the head of the Civil House, Rui Costa, came to
In January, there was only one replacement in the first echelon of the government: A NA SECOM (Secretariat of Communication of the Palace of the Presidency) in place of Deputy Paulo Pimenta (PT-RS).
Frustrated the expectation created by Costa, the president’s new version of allies was that by the House and Senate elections in February, in addition to the succession of the PT.
In February, the health president, replacing it with (PT). For his place at the SRI (Secretariat of Institutional Relations), he was appointed, then president of the PT.
Successive crises, such as that caused by dissemination of false information on PIX taxation, left the background reform. In the week marked by the death of Pope Francis, Lula also did not dedicate herself to the articulation of exchanges in the team, according to a government member.
