Petista stated that he decided to prove that “it was possible to do more than all the other presidents in the history of Brazil”
The president (PT) stated that the transposition of the São Francisco River is the “largest water project in the world”. The statement was made this Friday (May 29, 2026), during a visit to the expansion of the Sergipe Cancer Hospital.
“I decided to prove that a metalworker, but someone who knows this country, has feelings and thinks with his heart, was possible to do more than all the other presidents in the history of Brazil”these.
São Francisco transposition project
Despite being designed since the imperial period, the transposition project only began to take shape in 2007, during Lula’s second term.
Even with the work starting under the PT government, the president . In 2025, he said that “some people who carried out the coup” after the PT left the Presidency, they neglected the works to transpose the São Francisco River and “they didn’t do what they had to do”.
The statement was a criticism of the governments of (PL) and Michel Temer (MDB). The Bolsonaro government was in a clash with PT administrations because it claimed authorship of the São Francisco works as one of its main deliverables. While in Planalto, the then Chief Executive traveled to the Northeast to inaugurate and visit parts of the project.
This Friday (May 29), Lula stated that “there is nothing like transposition” and that the project does not guarantee “Irrigation only”. Declared: “It’s a sink for women to wash their dishes at home, a shower for people who have never taken a shower.”
