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Lula during UN meeting this week/Photo: Reproduction
The week began with a snap on the streets – intense demonstrations against the armage PEC and amnesty PEC that made it clear that part of society refuses the culture of expanded forgiveness and institutional shielding for parliamentarians. It was a warning sign for Brasilia: the voter is willing to disturb, and does not accept easy setbacks. In the same measure, in New York, President Lula climbed the UN Tribune to defend Brazilian democracy and denounce external interference. His speech sounded a direct response to the Trump government’s recent offensive, and gained even more outline when he met casually with the former president-a moment Lula himself admitted to “surprised” him by the generated chemistry.
The government will now articulate a formal meeting with Trump for next week, in an attempt to redefine directions in Brazil-Ita relations and counteract unilateral sanctions and tariffs imposed by Washington. The strategy is clear: to bring pragmatism to the center and show that Brazil will not give in to its sovereignty. Lula has explicit that there will be no veto on table themes, “except Brazilian sovereignty and democracy.”
Meanwhile, in Congress, political gears rotate in high tension. In the Senate, the armor PEC was rejected at the CCJ – it seems a formal burial, with an opposite opinion unanimously approved. This symbolic defeat gives her institutional breath to the High House, placing a defense aura of parliamentary decency. According to analysts, the Senate “gains strength”, while the House is thrown into fragility.
In the House, however, the PEC of amnesty rises under new name: PEC of dosimetry. It is an effort to reuse the project that fell into public discredit. But this renown does not erase the risk that it is the same proposal with less aggressive clothing.
The rapporteur released an explosive statement: he conditioned the approval of guidelines of national interest – such as the reduction of income tax for those who earn up to R $ 5,000 (and reflect up to R $ 7,500) – to the vote of the dosimetry PEC. The crash was immediate, generating noise in charge of the House and Senate. Hugo Mota, mayor, and David Alcolumbre, president of the Senate, showed irritation – the kind of shock between powers that reveals how tensioned institutional policy is.
Not only that, the Board of Directors of the Chamber denied that Deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro, residing abroad, could take the lead of the minority – and also authorized that his cassation process follows to the CCJ. Does this movement expose a dilemma: represent parliamentary diversity or justify ideological excesses? Eduardo reacted with harsh criticism, accusing senators to surrender to “politicians”. The episode reveals how Brasilia is serving as a stage for strategy, image and symbolic power disputes, not just legislative content.
This scenario shows that Brasilia has become a land of contrasts: the Senate rejects projects of political self -protection; The House tries to reinvent the amnesty under a new label; The executive seeks to resume international ties to external and internal hostilities. Amid this, the population seems to resume protagonism-and this week’s demonstrations are powerful reminders that rulers cannot ignore it.
In the external level, the Brazil-It-It crisis acquires explosive contours. Since Trump has imposed up to 50 % rates on Brazilian products, alleging “commercial deficit” – a speech that Brazil counteracts for keeping a surplus in the last 15 years – the theme has become diplomatic war grounds. The imposition of sanctions, cancellations of visas and interventionist rhetoric of Washington have become points of tension that Brazil cannot ignore. Lula’s words – “everything can be resolved when two people talk” – they sound like a direct challenge to the tutelage episode that some would like to see about Brazilian justice.
It must not be forgotten that the streets are heyond first. If the legislature fears the electorate, the executive uses diplomacy as a escape, and the judiciary (outside the focus of this column) observes attentive. Brasilia is at the question mark. And the promise of meeting between Lula and Trump for next week has become a kind of nexus between domestic seizures and global ruptures: it will be the scene for tariff negotiations, pacification of relationships and, above all, attempt to brave credibility before a troubled congress.
If Brasilia left the lethargy, it is good to be clear: who thinks the political week here ends in a diplomatic note is underestimating the internal game. Power does not sleep, and who thinks that politics is a distant spectacle makes an error: it runs on the streets, in the decisions of a commission, in the articulation of a leader and behind the scenes of an election that has already begun.
