The secretary of , Roberto Carneiro (Republicans), was chosen by the governor (Republicans) to take over the Government Secretariat in place of (), who left the department on Wednesday (25).
The information was anticipated by CBN and confirmed by Sheet. With the change, Nerylson Lima, currently state undersecretary of the Treasury, will take over the Civil House. The appointments must be announced in the Official Gazette on Monday (30).
Tarcísio intends to centralize political coordination in the Government Secretariat, a department that acts as a bridge between state management and the Legislature, city halls and other political agents. In practice, the work had already been done by Carneiro at the Civil House since January, with the aim of improving the government’s dialogue with its allies in an election year.
The political difficulties faced by Tarcísio at the beginning of the year increased the governor’s tension with Kassab. The governor’s assistants told the report that he complained daily about the president of the PSD, seen in political circles as an excellent articulator, for working little to reverse the government’s failure with city halls and state and federal deputies.
Furthermore, leaders of other parties complained to Tarcísio that Kassab had used his influence as secretary for the .
Carneiro, on the other hand, has been praised internally in the government for daily receiving deputies and mayors who complained that they were not attended to by either Kassab or Arthur Lima, his predecessor in the Civil House and now Secretary of Justice.
State president of the Republicans and seen as a well-known name in political circles, Carneiro is considered responsible for releasing resources to city halls in the interior, meeting demands that, and for having threatened, at the turn of the year, to disembark from the state government.
The new secretary of the Civil House, Nerylson Lima, is considered a trusted name for the governor. Nerylson was undersecretary of Planning, Budget and Administration at the Ministry of Infrastructure when Tarcísio was the holder of the portfolio, during the Jair Bolsonaro (PL) government, and is seen as one of the people closest to the governor at Palácio dos Bandeirantes.
