Petista Marcia Lopes, former Minister of Social Development and Hunger Fighting, was invited by the President (PT) to take over the Ministry of Women and will meet with the petista on Monday (5) in Brasilia.
The information, released by Platoôbr, was confirmed to the Sheet by Marcia herself on Saturday night (3). “I received yes [o convite] And I’ll be in Brasilia on Monday. In the afternoon I will talk to President Lula, “she told the report.
The petista invited Marcia on Friday (2) over the phone. On the same day, Lula met for 20 minutes with the current holder of the portfolio, Cida Gonçalves, who without speaking to the press.
Cida’s departure was already given for certain for the president’s surroundings since the beginning of the year, in the context of ministerial reform, and Marcia was pointed out as the favorite to take over the post. Lula’s allies also project that the current secretary general of the presidency, Márcio Macêdo, be replaced. According to them, the president would have expressed discontent with his performance in office.
Social worker and teacher, Marcia has been affiliated to the PT since the 1980s and was Lula Minister in 2010, during the petista’s second presidential term. She is the sister of Gilberto Carvalho, national secretary of popular and solidary economy of the Ministry of Labor and former general secretary of the presidency.
Marcia was also one of the coordinators of the Technical Social Assistance Group in the transitional government in 2022, with the minister (planning) and former Minister Tereza Campello.
The change in the Ministry of Women occurs amid Lula attempts to resume ministerial reform and postponed after successive crises faced by management. If Márcia accepts to take over the folder, the exchange in the first level of the government will be the sixth occurred since the beginning of the year.
Nevertheless, most of the changes in the Ministries Esplanade were between petistas, and those outside the party occurred in the face of external events such as scandals or allegations of corruption.
This Friday, from the Ministry of Social Security in the midst of the illegal discounts on Retirement and Pensions of the INSS (National Institute of Social Security). Wolney Queiroz (PDT), Lupi number two in the folder, the same day.
In April, Juscelino Filho (Union Brazil) after being denounced by the PGR (Attorney General’s Office) on charges of passive corruption related to.
Deputy Pedro Lucas (União Brasil-MA) was officially announced as a new minister, but 12 days later and caused new embarrassment for the government. The management appointed to the command of the part of another party nomination, Frederico Siqueira, then president of Telebras.
In January, Lula promoted the first exchange in the first level at Secom (Secretariat of Communication of the Presidency Palace) in place of Deputy Paulo Pimenta (PT-RS). The following month, he from the Ministry of Health and realized Alexandre Padilha for the position. In his place, ahead of SRI (Secretariat of Institutional Relations), Lula appointed the former PT president.
