Lawyer Alessandro Soares and journalist and former senator Ana Amélia Lemos discussed, this Thursday (25), in The Great Debate (Monday to Friday, at 11pm), whether the rapprochement between President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) and the President of the Chamber of Deputies, Hugo Motta (Republicanos-PB), will happen in practice.
After the vote on the Dosimetry PL in Congress, the expectation is that the relationship between the Chamber and the Executive.
This Tuesday (23), during the inauguration event of the new tourism minister at Palácio do Planalto, Motta stated that the National Congress did not have an “easy year”, but that it will continue with “partnership and dialogue in a frank manner” in 2026.
Alessandro Soares assesses that rapprochement will depend on next year’s electoral scenario.
“The government has a dilemma: it has to negotiate with this power structure that it naturally doesn’t like, it would be much better to negotiate with a base that has greater ideological, political and project cohesion, but it has to negotiate with this base because this is democratic at this very moment. And, at the same time, there are erosions, there are attacks, and this can affect the government in some way”, he highlighted.
“We don’t know if this will be successful next year, this will depend, firstly, on the electoral process, because next year is an election year, it will depend on the electoral polls, it will depend on how the Lula government will enter at the beginning of the year, all of this will weigh in Hugo Motta’s balance”, he assessed.
For Ana Amélia, the rapprochement is already happening.
“Hugo Motta is not Arthur Lira, he is a president very different from Arthur Lira, who knew how to use power. And the government needs, more than anything, to have a balance in its leadership.” And he continued: “President Lula is a huge candidate, so this becomes much more valuable, this good relationship with the president of the Chamber and obviously the Senate as well”, he highlighted.
“The Chamber takes care of parliamentary amendments and this is the candidates’ precious bargaining chip. What Hugo Motta needs to do for society is that these amendments are applied with transparency and that society knows where all this money is going”, he concluded
