The replacement of Marcio Macêdo () by () in the General Secretariat of the Presidency was not just any change, like so many others in these two years and ten months of government.
It bears some resemblance to the rotation of seats between PT members Gleisi Hoffmann and Alexandre Padilha in the Institutional Relations and Health portfolios, due to the minister’s more leftist and combative profile. The symmetry ends there.
For Boulos, President Lula (PT) seems to have a more ambitious project than just fulfilling tasks related to the ideological design of the palace team, although this is taken into account.
The deputy will not have the mission of forming part of the parliamentary base either. This is Gleisi’s service. Regarding , it will be up to him to stimulate pressure from the outside in, in defense of popular agendas that interest the government, using his expertise in social movements.
Apparently, Guilherme Boulos will be the minister of agitation and propaganda. Not by chance, in the photo announcing the appointment, she and Lula are joined by the person in charge of advertising promotion, . Just the three of them.
But there is more. With the trip to the Palace, if his promise to stay until the end of this term is fulfilled, Boulos will be out of the election in São Paulo. There, he received the most votes for deputy in 2022 and his just over 1 million votes are available to the left, which means the chance for them to migrate to the PT.
And the project, if the appearance is confirmed, would not stop there. If re-elected, the president will need a successor. (PT) has a specific model, tailored to the center. Boulos is more like Lula.
Although he came from the middle class, he was trained in the battle of the streets leading the homeless. An adaptation to the times when there are no more workers available to the myth of representatives of the masses. They may just be impressions, but it is worth paying attention to the configuration of the . Maybe there are clues there.
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