Lula exchanged 12 ministers in 2 and a half years of office – 05/05/2025 – Power

The president () has changed two government ministers in recent days.

() He resigned from the position of Minister, 10 days after an operation that revealed a fraud scheme in discounts not authorized in retirement. He was replaced by the executive secretary of the folder, Wolney Queiroz Maciel.

Already Cida Gonçalves was. In her place, she was also named Petista, former Minister of Social Development and Fighting Hunger in Lula’s second term.

With the falls of Lupi and Cida, there are already 12 exchanges in the Esplanade of Ministries in this third term of the petista. The president has already held a mini -reform to accommodate more parties of the Centrão Executive, and has exonerated other holders for complaints in cases of or by pressure around the performance in the folders.

Of these 12 changes, 9 of them were for substitutions, while 3 were relocations. In addition to Lupi and Cida, General Gonçalves Dias (), Daniela Carneiro (Tourism), (Sport), (), (), (), () and Juscelino Filho (Communications) left the government.

In addition to these, () was relocated from ports and airports for entrepreneurship, (PT) left the leadership of the Secretariat of Institutional Relations and went to health and left the court to occupy a vacancy in (Federal Supreme Court).

The number of exchanges in the first echelon of the petista government is lower than the visa in the mandate of the predecessor (). In the same period of government, the then president.

Already (), who headed the Brazilian executive after the fall of (PT), exchanged the holders of his folders 32 times in two years and seven months in office.

Among the reasons for the Emedebista’s trading-trading were allegations of corruption and attempts to bargain support for social security reform. The folders that had the most changes in the survey period were, justice and tourism, with four ministers each.

Lupi’s fall occurred despite the absence of evidence of his participation in the scheme. For the Planalto Palace, the idea that he did not take steps to stop the problem prevailed and did not react as he should after the explosion of the case.

Before him, it was Juscelino Filho who lost the head of the Ministry of Communications. He was (Attorney General’s Office) on charges. It was the first fall for a case of corruption, even on charges prior to the minister’s entry into the federal government.

Lula promised, last year, a ministerial reform, which would be triggered to prepare the Plateau for those of 2026 from the results in the municipal election. Nevertheless, the changes have been dragging on six months and are carried out slowly, at one of the agent in this second half of the term.

The departure of Paulo Pimenta (PT) launched the substitutions in the lineup of Lula’s ministry, being exchanged by Sidonio Palmeira. Next, Nisia left health, replaced by Padilha, and (PT) was appointed the head of the Secretariat of Institutional Relations.

Successive crises, such as the one caused by the dissemination of false news, left the background reform. In the week marked by the death of the Lula also did not dedicate herself to the articulation of exchanges in the team.

Now, in addition to Lupi, the petista is expected to resume negotiations for exchanges in the first level with the departure of Cida Gonçalves, from the Ministry of Women. She had on Friday (2) and left the Planalto Palace without speaking to the press.

Since the beginning of the year, with different ventilated names for replacement. Currently, it is considered the most quoted for the position.

The ministers who left the Lula government

  • General Gonçalves Dias: FAILED OF THE GSI (Institutional Security Office)
  • Daniela Carneiro: DECIDED OF THE MINISTRY OF TOURISM
  • Ana Moser: DECIDED OF THE MINISTRY OF SPORT
  • Márcio França: driven by the port and airports ministry for entrepreneurship
  • Flávio Dino: left the Ministry of Justice to take office at the Supreme Court (STF)
  • Silvio Almeida: Due to the Ministry of Human Rights
  • Paulo Pimenta: Due to Secom (Secretariat of Social Communication)
  • Nísia Trinity: fired from
  • Alexandre Padilha: Realocated from the Secretariat of Institutional Relations for the Ministry of Health
  • Juscelino Filho: DECIDED OF THE MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS
  • Carlos Lupi: DECIDED OF THE MINISTRY OF SOCIAL PREVIENCE
  • Who Gonçalves: Due to the Ministry of Women

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