Positive assessment of the president has retreated among the voters; Márcia Lopes says she wants integration with other ministries
The new minister of women, Márcia Lopes, said on Monday (5.mai.2025) that the president (PT) wants the most happy female population. The speech comes during a moment the petista presents by the female electorate.
“Lula said he wants to see the most happy, more protected women. That he wants to see women in each respected, welcomed municipality.”he told journalists in Brasilia.
The press speech comes after the Planalto confirmed the now former minister of women, she was with her successor during the interview with professionals.
“Cida will continue to be this militant of the causes and defenses of women, dignity, rights, democracy. And now we come to continue, to expand and to meet all these women throughout Brazil”said Marcia.
During the interview, the new head of women defended a greater dialogue among ministries to refer actions to the female public.
She said she was already talking to ministers Alexandre Padilha (Health) and Luiz Marinho (work) “These days”. It also nominally mentioned the Ministries of Education, Social Development and Agriculture.
“Women’s policy is intersectoral. It is not from this ministry that the direct execution of this service and public policies comes out. So this is the moment […] everything that advances, everything they have articulated ”.
She also defended dialogue with social movements, governors, mayors and organizations.
Asked if the Ministry of Women’s team would be exchanged during the new management, she did not respond.
Who is Márcia Lopes
Affiliated to the Workers Party since 1982, Márcia Lopes is 67 years old. He was Minister of Social Development at the 2nd Government of Lula. Before, he was executive secretary of the organ. He is also a social worker and teacher.
Now Minister of Women, the petista is the sister of the National Secretary of Solidarity Economy of the Ministry of Labor, Gilberto Carvalho, former Minister of the General Secretariat of the Presidency (2011 to 2015) and former Chief of Staff of Lula (2003-2010). In 2012, he was a candidate for Londrina City Hall (PR) by the PT, but was in 3rd place.
Lula & Women
The percentages of the voters who consider the work of the Petista great/good fell – difference of 24 percentage points in just over 2 years.
The data are from the research Power held from March 15 to 17, 2025 and released on March 19.
The percentage of women who evaluated Lula’s work as bad/bad is 37%. This is also the rate of those who choose “regular” as an answer.
The research Power Held in January 2025 already indicated the accentuation of the falling trend in the positive evaluation of the petista among women. At that time, 24% positively evaluated the president’s work, and 37% said it was bad/bad.
Lula has accumulated a series of controversial statements considered macho and misogynous. The president in March who put a “Beautiful Woman” To improve the political articulation of the government, in reference to the Minister of SRI (Secretariat of Institutional Relations) ,.
The context of Lula’s statement was between the Planalto and the National Congress, directed to the presidents of the Chamber, (Republicans), and Senate, (União Brasil), who were present at the moment.
The president’s speech did not catch well, but he was eventually defended by allies, including Gleisi. The minister who “Gestures are more important than words” and called the critics of “Opportunists”.
Read below other statements by Lula considered macho:
- – “When you set an alliance with a political party, this party does not always have a woman to indicate […] When a political party has to indicate a person and have no woman, I can’t do anything ”;
- – “This beautiful girl who is here … I was asking, ‘What does this girl sit? What does this girl sit that I heard no one to say her name?’. I said, ‘She’s a singer. She’s going to sing.’ Then I won’t have music?
- – “When a woman has a profession, she has a salary, she can fund her life. He won’t live, eat, with a man who doesn’t like her […] It won’t be ‘I need my dad give me $ 5 to buy a lipstick, I need my dad give me $ 10 to buy a panties’ ”;
- – “I said to Nisia [Trindade, ex-ministra da Saúde] that she had to speak thick on the health issue. That problem of the hospitals of Rio de Janeiro was. And Nisia answered me the following: “President, I can’t speak thick, because I’m a woman, I speak meek”;
- – “A lot of people think a television is a small thing, which is not very important. But for a more humble person, television is a heritage. The refrigerator, so not even talk. And a washing machine is a very important thing for women who are surviving a real suffering and martyrdom with this rain”;
- – “That girl who has a lot of child, she has 5 children. I said: companion, when will you close the gate, companion?. She can no longer have a child. She already has 5 children, she in 27 years. You have to take care of yourself, because when your child is born, we need to take care, and the state does not always care, not always the religion cares.
- – “See that girl who came here with 3 children. That girl is 25 years old. She has 3 children. I told her, my daughter, the first thing you have to do is stop having a child. Three children is not soft. I have 5, she has 3. So she has to go back to school, she needs to learn a good profession for her to take care of her children”;
- – “Today I learned of sad news. I learned that there is research, Haddad, who shows that after a soccer game increases violence against women. Unbelievable. If the guy is Corinthian, okay, like me, but I don’t get nervous when I lose, I regret deeply”;
- – “We will treat women with great affection. If you [Boulos] You can, take a special time to talk to the Brazilian wife, because she is a victim, she takes care of her husband, children, the house, including the refrigerator. It is the woman who knows the things she has inside the refrigerator ”;
- – “Women are getting smart and stop being slaves with husbands”.
The research was conducted by PowerCompany of the Power360 Journalism Group, with its own resources. The data were collected from March 15 to 17, 2025, through calls for mobile phones and fixed phones. There were 2,500 interviews in 198 municipalities in the 27 units of the Federation. The error margin is 2 percentage points, more or less.
To reach 2,500 interviews that fill proportionally (as they appear in society) groups by sex, age, income, education and geographical location, the Power It makes tens of thousands of phone calls. Often there are more than 100,000 calls until respondents are faithful who are faithful to the whole of the population. Learn more about the reading methodology.
