In less than a month, the government () suffered eight setbacks from its formal support base, with the most recent chapters the announcement of breaking by the bench of deputies, last Tuesday (6), and a.
Repeating a score that has not been rare in Lula 3, the centrão joined the opposition and marked 315 votes at 143 in the case related to the deputy (), leaving the PT and other parties of the left.
Although the message in this case is more to the (Supreme Court) – according to those only eventual crimes committed by the deputy after the diploma could be the subject of the House analysis -, it is nonetheless a defeat of the government.
Regarding the exchange of holders in the Ministry of Modest PDT (Social Security), the size of Carlos Lupi’s subtitle –17 deputies and three senators – may give the impression of less importance to possible rebellion, but means the first left shake on a base that has been profitable in instability, see the ramage case.
The latest astral hell of the – pholted in paper, but oscillating in practice – began on April 14, when the pocket opposition was able to file one to those convicted on January 8, 2023.
In the list of 185 deputies who put their signature, 81 were from ,, and, center and right acronyms that command, in all, 11 Lula ministries.
A week later, on the 22nd, the leader of the Union Brazil bench, Pedro Lucas Fernandes (MA), days after accepting.
The parliamentarian’s trip to Juscelino Filho’s vacancy,-(Attorney General’s Office) on charges-resulted in an internal riot in the party, stuck between Lula supporters and opponents.
Members of the Planalto Palace even ventilated the threat of removing space from the party, but the government has no strength to dispense with the support of the acronym, one of the largest of the House and.
In the last week of April, Congress arrived another sky of news contrary to palatial interests.
On the 29th, a Tuesday, the Chamber Constitution and Justice Commission against the revocation of its mandate.
The government says it has no position on the subject, but Glauber was visited by nine ministers when he was taking hunger on the House premises, including Gleisi Hoffmann (PT), the chief of the petista’s political articulation.
That same Tuesday,-jointly as a joint action for the next four years-in Congress in a climate of opposition rally, although they command four ministries.
The Lula administration was not nominally cited at any time, but the veiled and even explicit criticism guided the event.
The ministers of sport, André Fufuca (PP), and Tourism, Celso Sabino (União Brasil), were present, but in an unusual attitude in this type of event, were not called to speak.
Unlike this, they played a prominent role in the event figures such as Governor Ronaldo Caiado (União Brasil-GO) and Senators Ciro Nogueira (PP-PI) and Tereza Cristina (PP-MS), all critical to Lula.
The next day, April 30, the opposition in the House again managed to bring together signatures necessary to request another headache for the Planalto Palace, the CPI to investigate (National Institute of Social Security).
Once again, the document was supported by dozens of deputies from União Brasil, PSD, MDB, Republicans and PP.
On the holiday of May 1st – in which Lula failed to attend the acts of the union centrals due to the fear of emptied events – it was the turn of the PSD president ,.
Critic of Finance Minister (PT), Kassab this time said at Agrishow, the country’s main agricultural fair, that if (Republicans) herself to the presidency, the whole right will come together around him.
Still convinced that the governor of and former minister of (PL) will actually try to reelection, he added no problem in this case, assessing that the entire center right should launch candidates, but that, in the second round, “everyone meets.”
The second round, in this case, would be against Lula.
Kassab may be the most illustrative example of the unstable government base. The former mayor of Sao Paulo commands a party with three ministries and, at the same time, is Tarcisio’s secretary of government, appointed as possible rival of the petista in 2026.
Days later, Kassab repeated the promise of loyalty to Tarcisio on a visit to Congress, adding not to see a contradiction in commanding a party with ministries in the Lula administration and defending another name to 2026.
Lula was elected by a narrow margin in 2022 and, moreover, saw most of the chairs and Senate chairs to be won by the center and right parties.
With this, still in the transition signed an alliance with the center by the hands of Arthur Lira (PP-AL), then mayor and days before was on Bolsonaro’s stage.
Despite distributing nine ministries to these acronyms and then expanding the lot to 11, there is a history filled with betrayals since 2023.
Unlike other times, where PT governments had greater popularity and more persuasive retaliation mechanisms in case of unfaithfulness, with greater control over the payment of amendments, this time Lula faces not only the minority left, but worrying popularity and the empowerment of congress through the volume and imposition of amendments.
Lula’s series defeats in Congress
- Amnesty on January 8 – On April 14, the opposition filed a request to be urgently endorsed amnesty to those convicted of the attacks of 8 January 2023. In the list of 185 deputies, 81 were deputies of ,, and, acronyms that command 11 ministries of Lula. The request has not yet been based on the mayor, Hugo Motta (Republicans)
- The almost minister – On April 22, the leader of the Union Brazil bench, Pedro Lucas Fernandes (MA), days after having accepted. The retreat took place after internal riot in the party, cracked between Lula supporters and opponents.
- Glauber Braga – On April 29, the Chamber Constitution and Justice Commission against the cancellation of its mandate. PT and governors were defeated.
- Gilberto Kassab – The president of the PSD, who controls three ministries, repeated in statements on May 1 holiday and on the 8th loyalty to Tarcísio de Freitas (Republicans-SP), who is secretary, and the intention to launch candidates to run with Lula in 2026.
- PDT – The party in the House announced rupture with Lula on the 6th after the fall of Carlos Lupi from Social Security, amid the INSS scandal.
