AS and expanded a recurring complaint between the president’s allies (): the lack of coordination in the government of the petista.
Even direct assistants of the president admit the need to reorganize the so-called “Planalto Palace Kitchen”, which includes ministers who dispatch at the government’s headquarters and, traditionally, act under the influence of the Chief Minister of the Civil House, currently occupied by.
President’s allies defend the reformulation of this palace nucleus. They complain about the management being surprised by the explosion of problems that could be previously solved if there was greater alignment among government members.
Successive crises have required extra effort from the president’s team, who complains about being forced to set aside his routine functions to overcome emergency problems.
In addition, people close to the president say that today he does not have a circle close to allies who advise him about politics, as he had in his first and second mandates. These petista interlocutors say that, given this scenario, the president began to centralize decisions, imposing his own pace on these processes.
In this sense, petistas say that the president has taken longer to deliberate on topics and, for example. They also claim that there is a change in behavior of the petista, who previously organized more meetings with politicians, ministers and parliamentarians to discuss the national scenario.
Allies even claim that the president had a reality shock when faced with the current political and business leaders, 13 years after leaving the presidency, which eventually reducing political agendas.
Without delegating decisions to ministers, the Civil House is overwhelmed, according to interlocutors of the president who attribute this diagnosis to Lula himself.
Costa’s replacement, however, would be completely discarded at the moment. The petista, according to reports, is grateful to the effort of the minister, who gave up the Senate in 2022 to build a firm stage for Lula in Bahia.
Costa can leave the government in April 2026 to be free to apply for the Senate. Until then, the idea would be a new division of tasks in government coordination to advise the president in periodic meetings.
According to a Lula assistant, a change in government posture is needed. He advocates the creation of a group of Lula counselors with daily meetings to address the priority topics of the government’s agenda.
This team would be fattened with Márcio Macêdo as Minister of the General Secretariat of the Presidency.
Another suggestion is that Costa and (farm) be spared from these articulations to dedicate themselves to structuring measures. It was what was expected with the arrival of A SRI (Secretariat of Institutional Relations).
In the assembly of her team, the minister even called the negotiations with the National Congress, which were also among the attributions of the Civil House. The resumption of political articulation for SRI would alleviate the Costa’s agenda.
But the minister herself has been highlighted to confront seizures, as well as the head of Secom (Secretariat of Social Communication) ,.
Allies of the President also suggest the creation of thematic groups that take proposals already Olive to the decision of the Civil House.
There is also an assessment that it is necessary to bring Secom and the Civil House closer, establishing a direct channel to prevent Sidônio from being recruited mainly for crisis management. Aimed at erasing fires, he ends up denying his own functions of his folder, such as the expected bid for digital communication.
There are also complaints among governors of the lack of information from programs or initiatives between the ministries. They complain that the lack of synergy on the Esplanade exposes the Plateau palace to risks.
Then, in January this year, by signaling that he wanted to increase control over acts of ministries.
“From now on, no minister will be able to make a concierge that then create confusion for us without passing the presidency through the Civil House. Many times, we think it’s nothing, makes any ordinance and then breaks and falls into the presidency of the Republic,” he said in a ministerial meeting.
In another of these meetings, this time in 2023, the president scolded his team saying that they were previously presented and received the approval of the Civil House. At the time, he called these proposals “geniuses” of the folders holders.
Also according to government members, Rui Costa himself identifies an excess of tasks under his responsibility. An ally of the minister recalls that, in many cases, disputes between different ministries make the Civil House the destination of disputed agendas. An example is the agenda of the environment.
