The management decided to defend the creation of a Ministry of Public Security, separated from the Justice department, on the grounds that the issue has become an unavoidable national issue.
In a resolution that should be released this Monday (8), the president’s party also ignores the senator’s Planalto (-RJ) and treats the governor of , (), as the main interlocutor of a “neoliberal and privatist project”.
The PT’s national directory met on Saturday (6) to discuss a document that provides a broad analysis of the country’s political-economic situation and which serves as a guide for the positions of members of the party.
The weight given to public security is due to the fact that the issue has become one of 2026 and opened a flank of erosion for the Lula government.
So delicate, the topic underwent different treatments in the directory’s discussions. Preliminary version of the majority current CNB (Building a New Brazil), of which Lula is part, was emphatic in proposing the creation of a ministry.
A second version excluded the proposal to dismember Justice, currently headed by the minister.
In the final version, the creation of the Ministry of Public Security was reintroduced, albeit as one of the conclusions of a seminar held by the PT on the topic in .
“The PT reaffirmed that Brazil needs a Ministry of Public Security and an articulated national security policy, with a focus on intelligence, the financial fight against crime and the protection of communities”, says the final text.
“Public security has become an unavoidable national issue. Organized crime is advancing, occupying entire cities and states and replacing State functions. The Public Security PEC, the Operations Carbono Oculto and Poço de Lobato are examples of concrete and effective proposals and actions by the federal government.”
The resolution adds that “confronting the right-wing discourse, based on failed repression actions and with a high lethality rate, is also a necessary step.”
The PT leadership ignored, in the recently approved resolution, the presidential intentions of Flávio Bolsonaro, who launched himself as the Bolsonaro name for the Planalto on Friday (5). The arrest of the former president (PL) for an attempted coup d’état was treated by the PT leadership as “a victory for democracy”.
Despite not mentioning Flávio directly, the resolution argues that the former president’s arrest “opens internal disputes over hegemony and exposes the moral and political crisis of Bolsonarism.”
The text also says that the opposition remains articulated and that sectors of the right, especially governors, are working to sabotage Lula’s policies. For the PT, Tarcísio “stands out as the main interlocutor of the neoliberal and privatist project”. The first version stated that the governor’s project was “fascist-inspired” — the expression was eventually suppressed.
When pointing out the challenges facing Lula’s party, the resolution says that the relationship between the Executive and the Legislative is going through tense moments and is marked by “an instability deliberately produced by sectors of the right, extreme right, conservatives and physiological sectors that control Congress, appropriate the executive’s budget, with extortion and empty presidentialism”.
In criticizing Congress, the document says that “the sequestration of the public budget through parliamentary amendments has become one of the main factors of institutional instability and erosion of Brazilian democracy.”
On Thursday (4), he associated them with a kidnapping of the budget and a “serious historical error”.
The PT text also says that “in the political and cultural dispute, communication and digital sovereignty assume a strategic role”. “The regulation of big techs, the empowerment of progressive networks” are highlighted as “decisive conditions to compete for hearts and minds, block disinformation and protect the electoral process”.
When talking about the 2026 election, the document also says that “there will be no election without external interference, as has already occurred with tariffs and North American pressure for the non-regulation of big techs, including unacceptable threats against Supreme Court ministers and members of the government”.
In its final version, the PT excluded a self-criticism that appeared in one of the first versions of the group headed by Lula. A draft discussed by the CNB stated that the PT needed to “overcome its weaknesses on social media and in the streets”. This excerpt was eventually deleted.
