Government members () reacted to the union of right-wing governors after the mega-operation against , in , criticizing what they classified as an attempt to politically divide the country.
Furthermore, Lula’s allies say that the heads of state executives are working to place Brazil on the government’s radar of interventions, encouraging the American’s offensive against Brazilian sovereignty. Last week, for example, the senator, one of the former president’s sons (), suggested that those allegedly carrying drugs in Rio.
In recent months, the United States has reinforced its military presence in Latin America by sending fighter jets, warships and soldiers under the argument of acting against drug trafficking, mainly in Venezuela.
On Thursday (30), to show support for (PL), after , which has left 121 people dead so far. In the tone of an early election campaign, the governors attacked the Lula government and announced the creation of a group they called the “Peace Consortium”, which will bring together the heads of state executives to coordinate actions to combat organized crime.
Aides to the President of the Republic say they see electoral motivation in the union of the heads of state Executives at a time when the federal government was accumulating a positive tide, with increased approval of the PT administration.
The mega-operation in one and its consequences, with an exchange of accusations and criticisms from one side to the other, against the backdrop of the electoral dispute in 2026. The public security agenda should be one of the main themes of next year’s election.
The minister (Secretariat of Institutional Relations) stated that the governors who are now uniting were against what was sent by the Executive to Congress, which plans to constitutionalize the Susp (Single Public Security System), establishing minimum guidelines to be followed by security bodies across the country.
“Instead of joining forces in the fight against organized crime, as proposed by the Security PEC sent by President Lula to Congress, the right-wing governors, voiced by Ronaldo Caiado, invest in political division and want to put Brazil on the radar of Donald Trump’s military interventionism in Latin America”, he stated in a post on social media.
The minister also said that governors cannot hide their desire “to hand over the country to foreigners”, citing the work of Congressman Eduardo Bolsonaro (PL-SP) in the USA. “Public security is a very important issue, which cannot be treated lightly and for electoral purposes. Fighting crime requires intelligence, planning and combined efforts.”
The minister, from the General Secretariat of the Presidency, called the governors’ initiative an “unpatriotic consortium” and said that they want to use the crisis in the state of Rio de Janeiro to “perform electoral demagoguery”.
In a post on social media, he stated that the heads of state executives met to “attack the federal government and defend Trump’s position that classifies drug trafficking as terrorism.”
“In fact, it is an unpatriotic consortium, which intends to encourage foreign interventionism against Brazil. If they were truly concerned about combating organized crime, they would have supported the Public Security PEC,” he wrote.
The leader of the PT in the Chamber, Lindbergh Farias (RJ), said in a publication on the networks that the governors, instead of supporting the PEC, “prefer the political use of barbarity and transform the tragedy into an electoral platform”. “The consortium of governors is an act: they are the same ones who asked Bolsonaro for amnesty and are now sabotaging a proposal that strengthens national cooperation.”
In the Chamber, government parliamentarians criticized the possibility of voting on a bill that equates criminal factions with terrorist groups in the coming days. The proposal must be reported by deputy Guilherme Derrite (PP-SP), public security secretary of the Tarcísio de Freitas government, and faces resistance from the government base.
A parliamentarian tells the report that this project, if approved, will serve to bring risks to Brazilian sovereignty, opening space for foreign interventions in the country.
