The president () took another step in his ministerial reform with the objective of promoting adjustments in the articulation of his government with the field of the left. This Monday (5), he formalized the replacement of the Minister of Women, (PT), by also petista.
Minister of Social Development and Fighting Hunger of the second Lula administration, Marcia is pointed out by supporters as an experienced manager who, in the president’s allies’ view, would be able to reconnect the folder with social movements and historical supporters of the petistas.
The option for her occurs in a year of the president’s drop in popularity in her traditional electoral strongholds. Lula’s allies have recommended that he regain his electorate for the 2026 presidential dispute when he should try to reelection.
Within this strategy, it grew again on the betting stock exchange of a ministerial reform made to the dropper the name of the federal deputy (-SP). He can be appointed by Lula to the General Secretariat of the Presidency in place of Minister Márcio Macêdo.
Cida’s replacement was taken for a certain since Lula began to discuss with auxiliaries the idea of making changes to her team. According to reports of these allies, the president had been expressing discontent with the performance of the then minister.
In the view of petistas, Cida had been displaying little ability to capitalize, in favor of the government, guidelines linked to women’s rights, and strengthen the dialogue with social organizations that represent this group.
In the 2022 election, women were a segment of the electorate considered crucial for Lula to be able to open an advantage over the then president, both in the first and second round.
Allies attribute the choice of Cida’s substitute to the minister (PT-PR), whom Marcia Lopes is a friend. Before deciding, Lula “interviewed other candidates” to the vacancy in the words of an assistant. The alternatives included an evangelical parliamentarian and a leadership of female entrepreneurship movement.
Marcia had already told Sheet after attending a meeting with the president.
Three days earlier, Lula and Cida for about 20 minutes. At the time, she left without talking to the press.
Dismissed on Monday from the Ministry of Women, she stated that Lula did not claim dissatisfaction with her management by justifying the exchange in the head of the portfolio.
“It is not an exchange for incompetence, harassment, feud, that is not. It is a exchange of direction, moments. There are times when you are at the limit of exhaustion of what can advance, expand, and new people come with a new look, with another perspective,” said Cida.
Marcia is a social worker and teacher. She was one of the coordinators of the transition to Lula’s third term, alongside the minister (planning) and former Minister of Social Development Tereza Campello.
He is also sister of Gilberto Carvalho, former secretary-general of the presidency of Dilma Rousseff (PT) and current national secretary of popular and solidary economy of the Ministry of Labor.
During Lula’s second term, Marcia held different positions at the Ministry of Social Development, reaching the post of Minister in 2010.
In the effort to expand the connection with the electorate near the left, Lula has also shown dissatisfaction with Macêdo’s performance. The president has already talked to the minister himself about his performance.
Macêdo’s destination is expected to be sealed around the president of a trip on an official mission to Russia and China.
One of the obstacles to the choice of Boulos for the position is in his candidacy for reelection to the House of Representatives next year.
In reserved conversations, Lula has expressed concern about the fact that a significant slice of his team will have to leave office in April 2026 to compete, either for the legislature or the executive.
Although the appointment of Boulos as minister was a way of animate sympathetic movements to Lula, his candidacy for deputy is considered important to PSOL.
Therefore, the name of former Minister Paulo Pimenta has also been mentioned to the General Secretariat. On the other hand, according to allies, Lula has said he would like Pimenta to compete in the Senate through Rio Grande do Sul.
In addition to this vacancy, Lula will have to make a decision on Social Development Minister Wellington Dias (PT-PI). The president did not decide if he will be kept in office, according to his allies. With a possible exchange, Lula could give a new envelope to the government’s social programs.
With the departure of Cida, there are already 12 exchanges in the Esplanade of Ministries in this third term of Lula. The president has already held a mini -reform to accommodate more parties of the Centrão Executive, and has exonerated other holders for complaints in cases of or by pressure around the performance in the folders.
Of these 12 changes, 9 of them were for substitutions, while 3 were relocations. In the same period of government, the then president. Already (), who headed the Brazilian executive after the fall of (PT), exchanged the holders of his folders 32 times in two years and seven months in office.
Lula provided for a ministerial reform to be triggered to prepare the plateau for those of 2026 from the results in the municipal election. The changes ended up dragging on for six months amid successive crises in the government.
