Lula complains about the center at lunch with Kassab – 07/08/2025 – Power

The president (PT) stated at lunch with the president of, who parliamentarians from centrão and opposition were wrong to make the vote of guidelines of interest to the government and support sanctions imposed by the Donald Trump government, otherwise they are accused of working against the country.

One day after pockets obstruct voting at Congress, even occupying the mayor’s chair, Lula recalled, according to reports obtained by Sheetthat oppositionists were criticized for supporting the economic sanctions imposed by the Trump government against Brazil.

The report found that the petista quoted in the conversation research that the threats of economic losses have retreated about the opposition.

Lunch occurred while Governor Tarcísio de Freitas (Republicans), whom Kassab is secretary of government, was in Brasilia, who was serving house arrest.

Although they have representatives in the Esplanade of Ministries, the parties of Centrão (União Brasil, MDB, PP, PSD and Republicans) have linked defeats in Congress to the Planalto Palace, with open opposition nuclei in some cases.

The PSD, for example, leads three folders, but has two presidential candidates for 2026 (the governors Ratinho Junior, from Paraná, and Eduardo Leite, Rio Grande do Sul).

In addition, Kassab erected at the beginning of the year public criticism of the petista government and was one of the leaders who sympathized with Bolsonaro after his house arrest was decreed.

According to Sheet He learned, Lula said at lunch that the departure of Brazil for the tariff imposed by the US to Brazilian products is to look for new business partners. At the meeting, he would have praised the role of the PSD in Congress.

Upon being invited to the meeting, Kassab stressed the minister (Secretariat of Institutional Relations) that the party has a candidate for the Presidency of the Republic and that an alliance with a view at 2026 should not be on the agenda.

In response, the minister said Lula is aware of the party’s decision. In addition to her, the lunch was attended by the PSD ministers and the PSD leader in the House, Antonio Brito (BA). Also present were the government leader in the Senate, Jaques Wagner (PT-BA), and the president of the CCJ (Commission and Constitution and Justice) of the House, Otto Alencar (PSD-BA).

The meeting took place at a time when Lula has met with leadership leaders of the Allied base in an attempt to approach the subtitles. In recent days, he has been with ministers and leaders of MDB and União Brasil. In the case of União Brasil, the president also demanded ministers of the subtitle about the party’s lack of support in Congress and statements by the party’s president and leaders criticizing the executive.

The PSD of Kassab occupies the Ministries of Mines and Energy, with, agriculture, with, and fishing, with André de Paula.

Leaders of parties with splash spaces have criticized petist management and often threaten to disembark from the government. In addition, parliamentarians of these acronyms, such as PP and União Brasil, have not accompanied the government in guidelines of interest to the executive.

More recently, Lula complained of statements from Union Brazil leaders, which has three representatives in the ministry. At the end of July, he called the acronym ministers for a meeting demanded defense of the government. The Progressive Union Federation of União Brasil and PP, for example, has publicly criticized Lula’s conduct in the tariff crisis.

Visit from Tarcisio to Bolsonaro

While the petista and Kassab had lunch, Tarcisio was in Brasilia to visit Bolsonaro.

The governor arrived around 2:30 pm, not to mention the press. He later said the former president “is fine, he is serene.”

How it showed the Sheetthe home arrest of the political godfather regarding the possibility of being the candidate for the succession of pockets to the presidency in 2026.

The movement, for a shy now, occurs after weeks of discouragement with potential candidacy.

The governor was criticized, from different sides of the political spectrum, for his attempt to act in the tariff, because he did not comment on Supreme Court’s United States sanctions against Alexandre de Moraes, and for not making any gesture about Bolsonarist acts on Sunday (3).

With the anticipation of Bolsonaro’s anticipated arrest last Monday (4), close people said there was a new pressure movement for Tarcisio to stay in the list of successors.

Tarcísio was minister of infrastructure in the Bolsonaro government and, in the folder, endorsed the then president’s negationist attitude over Covid. He was beside him on the live in which the former president laughed when he commented on a supposed increase in suicides in the pandemic.

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