In conversation with leaders and influencers of the periphery in, the president (PT) mentioned “amnesty risk” when talking about the National Congress and defending the election of more representatives of peripheral communities.
“Congress has helped the government, the government approved almost everything the government wanted, but the far right has a lot of strength. So it is a battle that has to be done by the people,” said the petista on Thursday (4).
Centrão and Opposition leaders a project of wide forgiveness to all involved in the 2022 coup plot and January 8, including Jair Bolsonaro (PL).
The former president’s government was quoted in another Lula agenda on Thursday, in a launch ceremony of the People’s Gas Program, when he said he “spent two years fixing this country.”
According to the Federal Government, the Gas do Povo program, which replaces the current Gas aid, will offer gratuity in the cooking gas canister to 15.5 million Brazilian families, benefiting about 50 million people.
In a cluster of Serra, in the conversation with leaders and influencers of the periphery, Lula stated that “we are in a delicate moment” and that we need to “politicize our communities.” “We need to fight fake news. The lie flies, the truth crawl,” he said. The first lady Rosângela da Silva, Janja, also participated in the conversation.
The petista said that until the end of his term, the government needs to know what is working and what needs to be corrected.
“If you don’t charge, we think things are fine. No problem criticizing, talking badly. I don’t want you to be white plate. I want you to be true,” said the petista.
Lula also argued that there are representatives of the periphery in the National Congress. “We have two MST deputies and we have 240 ruralists, how are we going to approve things? Do you know what is the biggest punishment of those who do not like politics? It is being governed by those who like. And if those who like it is indifferent, we will continue to suffer,” said Lula.
“Democracy is an extremely important thing, although we often do not feel democracy bring benefit to us. Because democracy is not only the right to vote. It is also the right to rule, the right to guess, to make suggestion, to present, to help govern. Because often who knows how to do things is not the government, he said.
This is the seventh visit of Lula A in 2025, a sequence that already surpasses the total trips of the petista to the state in the first two years of his government.
The intensification of the president’s agenda happens amid the attempt to establish a competitive stage in the state for his reelection. Second largest electoral college in the country, Minas Gerais is known to be a kind of.
The construction of the PT in Minas is centered on support for the candidacy of the former president of () to the State Government.
In recent interviews and speeches, Lula has encouraged the ally’s candidacy, whom he usually quotes as “main political personality” of Minas.
As has already occurred in other federal government ceremonies in Minas Gerais, Pacheco spoke on Thursday. The senator spoke again in defense of sovereignty, in reference to attacks by the US government of Donald Trump encouraged by federal deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro (PL-SP).
“It matters little if they are taking away from our authorities. What matters is defending the sovereignty of the country,” he said. “They tried to blow this country. Our democracy is a sacred value for us,” he said.
Before Lula spoke, part of the audience shouted “Outside Zema”, in reference to the governor of Minas Gerais Romeu Zema (Novo), pre-candidate for Planalto in 2026.
