The president of the Federal, (-AP), was irritated by the president’s (PT) statement that Congress had hijacked the Budget through parliamentary amendments, and complained to members of the Palácio do Planalto. The call took place in front of other congressmen, while he was still presiding over the session.
Lula during the 6th Council meeting this Thursday, with businesspeople and civil society representatives. “I don’t agree with the imposing amendments. I think that the fact of sequestering 50% of the Union Budget is a serious historical error. But you will only put an end to this when you change the people who govern and who approve it”, declared the PT member.
The speech disturbed deputies and senators from the allied base who were in the plenary session of a Congress session. A deputy called the special secretary for Parliamentary Affairs of the SRI (Secretariat for Institutional Relations), André Ceciliano, and passed the phone number to the president of the Senate.
According to parliamentarians, Alcolumbre questioned, in front of others, “what kidnapping” this would be, since he was working to approve the LDO (Budget Guidelines Law) as the government wanted and also worked to help the Correios, with a change in the fiscal target of state-owned companies that allows the Executive not to have to cut expenses to compensate for the greater loss that the company should record in 2026.
Parliamentary amendments are a reason for friction between the Powers throughout Lula’s current term. The minister of , demanding more transparency, which congressmen saw as an action by Planalto itself to weaken them.
When contacted by the report, Alcolumbre and Ceciliano did not comment.
Congressmen told the Sheet that Lula’s speech worsens the climate in the Legislature and that it could be highlighted at a time of greater tranquility in the relationship, but that the current situation makes things more tense.
Alcolumbre has been away from Palácio do Planalto since the president chose the minister of the (Attorney General of the Union), for the vacancy of the STF (Supreme Federal Court). The president of the Senate defended that the nominee should be Senator Rodrigo Pacheco (PSD-MG), one of his main allies.
He began to act directly to defeat Lula in the vote, which made the president postpone the formalization of the person chosen to hold the hearing until next year. This Thursday’s session was the first of greater reconciliation between the government and the president of the Senate, with the LDO approved by consensus and negotiated with the Palácio do Planalto.
The President of the Republic has told allies that he intends to meet with Alcolumbre to talk and settle the relationship. Until Messias’s appointment, the president of the Senate was the PT member’s main ally within Congress and was a counterpoint to the president of the Chamber, (-PB), with whom Planalto has a relationship of distrust.
