Invitations from the President of the Republic are usually not refused, especially when addressed to authorities who are in the same city and have no business that prevents them from attending. Unless the absences contain an explicit meaning and message of annoyance.
The decision of the presidents of the Chamber and of signing the law of .
The deputy (-PB) and the senator (União-AP) shot in several directions: they managed to make the absences more prominent than the project and showed that the mistake goes beyond friction with PT leaders — it reaches the president (PT).
Furthermore, they denied prestige to the celebrations of the campaign flag for re-election; They avoided hearing words of appreciation from the president to try to lighten the mood and also sought to produce a demonstration effect for the troops most loyal to the commanders in both Houses.
History tells us that, during democracy, no president of the Republic stands in sharp contrast to the . It can either be vulnerable to the extreme of impeachment —which is not the case— or become the target of constant defeats to the point of ungovernability.
Parliament is the owner of the game and, therefore, it is up to the president to calibrate the moves in order to at least achieve a draw. Lula is not behaving like this, simply because he exchanged State tasks for candidate actions. As such, he demarcates land in order to win the parade.
Although the electoral campaign has already begun, there is still more than a year of government. It’s a lot of ground for the president to think that the battle is won. Motta and Alcolumbre had no opponents in the elections for the Chamber and Senate, they are from opposition parties and identify ideologically with the majority.
Lula has nothing to gain and may have a lot to lose if he doesn’t step down from the podium to make the sacrifice of kissing hands.
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