The president (PT) in his honor this Sunday (15) with divided allies and under alert from the (Superior Electoral Court). The group will open the first night of the Special Group with a samba-plot inspired by the PT member’s political trajectory at the Sapucaí Sambadrome. He will be in the city hall box to watch the parade.
The presentation will be at 10pm, which shows the parades from São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.
The First Lady, a. She will be the first hostess from Palácio da Alvorada to parade through a samba school in Rio de Janeiro.
With the plot “From Alto do Mulungu Hope Arises: Lula, the Worker of Brazil”, Acadêmicos de Niterói also pays tribute to former first lady Marisa Letícia (1950-2017), who will be represented by actress Juliana Baroni. Marisa paraded in São Paulo for Gaviões da Fiel in 2012, with the story “You’ll See That Your Son Doesn’t Run Away from the Fight – Lula, the Portrait of a Nation”. At the time, however, Lula was out of the Presidency.
This year’s honor has been the target of questions from opposition parties, who have sued the court under the argument of early electoral propaganda. The TSE rejected actions presented to try to stop the parade, but minister Cármen Lúcia warned of the risk of illicit acts.
“The popular festival of Carnival cannot be a window for anyone’s electoral crimes and, therefore, as the eminent minister André Mendonça clearly states, people who have already announced themselves as possible candidates are announced as participants”, he stated this Thursday (12).
According to the minister, this means that there is at least a concrete risk that something illegal will happen, “which will certainly be the object of the , which is triggered by untimely electoral propaganda”, she added.
“This does not seem to be a scenario of white sand on a beach, it seems more like a scenario of quicksand. Whoever enters, enters knowing that they could sink”, said the president of the TSE.
On Thursday (12), the Attorney General’s Office of the Union prepared an opinion under determination of the presidency in which it defines carnival events as a private agenda.
The president. Ministers were prohibited from scheduling official agendas that artificially coincide with Rio Carnival, and members of the government who want to attend the presentation must bear travel and accommodation costs.
Another recommendation is that they not hold public demonstrations in favor of the government during the period.
As shown by Sheetin recent weeks, the president’s entourage has been divided regarding the possible benefits and losses caused by Lula’s presence at Carnival in three of the country’s capitals — in addition to Rio, Recife and Salvador.
Government members and allies fear a possible negative political effect, with the president exposed to boos and other insults. As the parades last more than an hour and the audience is the same for all samba schools, the atmosphere will not be like an event organized by the federal government or the PT, when the participants are Lula supporters.
Some PT leaders still fear the . A particular fear is that the samba school will be demoted, which would lead to memes and a reputation as a bad guy just months before the election.
There are those who argue that the president is not to blame for being chosen as a plot device, but he could have been less involved with the parade.
Another group evaluates the president’s visit to popular festivities as positive, arguing that Lula’s proximity to the population is important. For them, the Carnival public will be interested in the parades, not in political demonstrations.
