Quoted to, petista Marcia Lopes said she should take office on Monday (5) after a meeting with the president () in Brasilia. Despite the statement, the federal government has not yet confirmed that it will be the new minister of the portfolio.
“[O presidente] reported that he had talked to Cida [Gonçalves] and scheduled to talk to him tomorrow [segunda-feira] the afternoon. I must sign the term of possession. I’ll be working all week, “Márcia told Sheet This Sunday (4).
Former Minister of Social Development and Hunger Fighting, Marcia had already confirmed to the report the invitation to take over the Ministry of Women, led by the petista Cida Gonçalves. However, on the president’s agenda for Monday released on Sunday, there is no meeting.
According to Marcia, Lula called her on Friday (2) to make the invitation. On the same day, he met for 20 minutes with Cida Gonçalves in the Planalto Palace. She without speaking to the press.
The president’s surroundings already gave as the position in the context of ministerial reform. Marcia, who was Lula’s minister in 2010, during his second term, was pointed out as the favorite to assume the paste of women.
Social worker and teacher, she has been affiliated with PT since the 1980s and is sister of Gilberto Carvalho, national secretary of popular and solidary economy of the Ministry of Labor and former general secretary of the presidency. She was also one of the coordinators of the Social Assistance Technical Group in the transitional government in 2022, with Minister Simone Tebet (Planning) and former Minister Tereza Campello.
If the ministry exchange is confirmed, it will be the sixth change in the first echelon of the government since the beginning of the year. Most exchanges, however, while changes involving outside the party occurred amid scandals and allegations of corruption.
On Friday, from the Ministry of Social Security amid the crisis of illegal discounts in retirement and pensions of (National Institute of Social Security). His two number two in the folder, Wolney Queiroz (PDT),
In April, Juscelino Filho (Union Brazil) after complaint of the PGR (Attorney General’s Office) accuses passive corruption linked to. Deputy Pedro Lucas (União Brasil-MA) was officially announced as his place, but 12 days later and Frederico Siqueira, then president of Telebras, took over the folder.
In January, Lula dismissed Deputy Paulo Pimenta (PT-RS) of the command of Secom (Secretariat of Communication of the Presidency Palace) to. In February, from the Ministry of Health and realized Alexandre Padilha for the position. In his place, ahead of SRI (Secretariat of Institutional Relations), Lula appointed the former PT president.
