Back, the president () faces the administration of the internal crisis caused by the scandal of illegal discounts in retirement and pensions in the (National Institute of Social Security), with the possible installation of one, all amid internal friction between ministers and within their unstable support base.
The new foci of wear and tear happens at a time when the government worked to reverse the ability of management popularity. OS and, according to internal research, neutralized the effort to recover the assessment of the president.
Lula traveled from his government to Russia on the 7th and from there he went to China, where he stayed until Wednesday (14). This Thursday (15), was in Uruguay for the funeral of José Pepe Mujica.
The trip to China was that the petista and the first lady, Rosângela Lula da Silva, A, had with the Chinese leader, about the social network Tiktok.
Although Lula denied discomfort with Beijing’s authorities, the episode exposed the government, with accusations of who was responsible for the press release, and annoyed the President of the Republic, who publicly criticized the incident.
the petista made a point of making clear to the ministers who traveled that he was contradicted and unhappy with the leakage of the conversation.
According to two members of the entourage, Lula even prohibited any authority that traveled with him back to Brazil would come down from the plane in Russia – which was interpreted as an attempt by the president to prevent further leaks, explaining the climate of distrust among government members.
In addition, according to reports made to the report, the minister (House Civil), complained to interlocutors during the flight. According to two members of the entourage, he said that he does not need to worry only about his political opponents, but also with the allies themselves.
On the eve of the return to Brazil, allies of the President of the Republic said they expected from Lula an active stance to contain the friction between members of his government and to prevent these conflicts from generating new wear and tear in the image of his management.
In addition to the climate of internal disputes related to the episode of the leak, Rui Costa recently exposed disagreements with the Minister of CGU (Comptroller General of the Union), Vinicius de Carvalho, about the INSS scandal.
Amid the details of measures to combat irregularities, Carvalho was forced to answer if he had not informed the government about the evidence of irregularities already in the course of investigations. Government members complained internally from this conduct. Criticism in this sense came to light in Rui Costa to the newspaper O Globo.
Under pressure at the Planalto Palace, the head of the CGU defended his procedures, listing meetings throughout the process, but did not directly counteract criticism from the Civil House colleague.
“We live in a time when some information is treated inappropriately to generate misinformation. It’s harmful,” he said. “President Lula guides us not to quit in relation to the fight against fraud. It was President Lula’s government that guaranteed the necessary autonomy to curb this kind of things.”
Although the Planalto Palace is against government members and parliamentarians of the Allied base recognize difficulties in preventing the installation of the INSS CPMI in Congress.
This scenario has already led Lula’s allies to discuss and outline strategies to contain damage, focusing above all on the expansion of the investigation to also put the government (PL) at the center of the committee’s work.
Amid the pressure of the congress, on Friday (16), and com, da.
Gleisi Hoffmann (Secretariat of Institutional Relations), Sidônio Palmeira (Secom) and Rui Costa, as well as government leader Jaques Wagner (PT-BA) were present.
The executive is against the installation by fear of conducting an investigation under the strong influence of the opposition.
In addition, there is an assessment that, with the operation of CPMI, projects considered priority by the federal government and that they are being processed in Congress would be in the background in the debate of parliamentarians, such as the proposal that gives exemption from IR (Income Tax) to those who earn up to R $ 5,000.
Members of the Planalto Palace and governors have adopted the discourse that the illegalities began in previous managers, but were exposed and investigated in the PT government. This should be the line used if CPMI is installed.
The idea will be to try to occupy key spaces in the collegiate, in an attempt to leave for the confrontation with the opposition.
Nevertheless, there is still a fear of how the federal government base will act on the commission, in the face of congressmen’s complaints about the payment of parliamentary amendments and what they consider a stoppage of the executive, without presentation of programs or proposals to reverse the drop in popularity.
There are also criticism from Centrão members on Lula’s ministerial exchanges. O President signaled to assistants that the federal deputy (PSOL-SP) should be announced minister of the General Secretariat of the Presidency in place of (PT).
Boulos’ probable trip to a plateau seat generated resistance from the center. They claim that this movement, materialized, will be another signage that the executive seeks to wave to the left.
In the words of one of them, this also increases the internal pressure these parties receive from their representatives by a removal from the federal government base. Another politician of the group states that the situation reflects a loss of ability of the executive in dialogue with the center.
