The first lady Rosângela da Silva, the Janja, considered leaving Brasilia and felt “disruption” by the attacks she suffered, especially between the middle and the end of last year. In an interview with the column of journalist Monica Bergamo in Folha de S. Paulo, he evaluated his position compared to the first other ladies that passed through the Dawn Palace.
Asked if he would have altered his posture due to the position, Janja says he did not change. “But I can’t go out singing at an event, as I could in the campaign,” he said in the interview.
“I still have the same spirit. Historically the first lady is placed in a box, to do philanthropy, visit social works. They wanted to put me in a box, but from the beginning I said this is not my profile,” said Janja in an interview with Monica Bergamo column.
She says she refused to enter the box and this “refusal has created this whole series of questions about my position.” According to the first lady, however, internal and external issues to the government, as well as the press, led her to reflect on the position.
“I am a normal person. It is obvious that all the attacks I suffered, especially from the middle of the year, until the end of the year [passado]of course, they left me disrupted, ”he said in an interview with the column at Folha de S. Paulo.“ There was a time when I wanted to take my bag and my dogs and go out, go back to my house. ”
2026 Campaign and Michelle Bolsonaro
Next year, Janja should face another former first lady who won protagonism: Michelle Bolsonaro-wife of former President Jair Bolsonaro, who-must play an important role in the 2026 elections.
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Although he says he is not concerned about the figure of the former first lady, Janja says he feels entitled to protect President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva when he is attacked. “He doesn’t need protection. But I won’t let anyone attack him, be a man or a woman. Depending on the level of attack, it’s obvious that I’m going to put myself,” he said in the interview.
At an event in August, Michelle Bolsonaro even accused President Lula as a penguin. She also chairs PL Mulher EE positions herself as a possible Senate candidate for the Federal District.
“I hope she has ethics to know the role she has. I hope she doesn’t repeat what she did. Because for us women, her behavior is very bad. It’s not about her. It’s about women,” Janja told Monica Bergamo’s column. “We are already very attacked. We already have difficulty reaching places of decision and power.”
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About his role in the 2026 electoral dispute – although Lula has not confirmed whether he will compete for reelection – Janja says that his willingness, since the beginning of the government, was to talk to women: “It is a fundamental agenda for me.”
She says she has been talking to groups of evangelical women, a friendly group to former President Jair Bolsonaro. “My concern is to understand how they look at us and how government public policies impact, or do not impact their lives.”
