Target completed within União Brasil, The sole minister of the party affiliated to the party, Celso Sabino (Tourism), has signaled to the Planalto Palace that intends to continue in charge of the portfolio. The government awaits a definition of the minister.
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (PT) assistants’ bet is that Sabino gets a license from the acronym to
The minister has insisted, with the leaders of União Brasil, that his permanence until the His state would be important to his political ambitions in the region.
This Thursday (18), so that affiliates appointed to positions in government leave their duties, “under penalty of practice of party infidelity.” Sabino, who was serving a schedule in Belém, returned to Brasilia after the announcement.
The minister must meet Lula later this Friday (19) to communicate his decision. There is, on the one hand, confidence on the part of the Plateau that Sabino chooses to remain in office; On the other hand, Union Brazil interlocutors believe he chooses to follow the subtitle and leave the government.
The deadline was set in a resolution signed by the party’s national president, Antonio Rueda.
In the same note in which he announced the measure, the direction of the Union expressed “unrestricted solidarity” to Rueda, after his name came to appear in in the financial and fuels.
“It is deeply strange that these untruths come to public just a few days after the official determination of union Brazil’s affiliate removal of positions occupied in the Lula government – legitimate, democratic and widely debated movement in the higher instances,” the statement said.
“Such ‘coincidence’ reinforces the perception of political use of the state structure, aiming to wear the image of our main leadership and, consequently, weaken the independence of a party that adopted a position contrary to the current government,” the note adds.
The PF determines if Reda would be the hidden owner of executive jets used to transport members of organized crime, after testimony of one of the pilots of these aircraft. The corporation, however, points out that the leader is not yet formally investigated.
Rueda had already classified the situation as a defamatory campaign: “What is, yes, is a political background in these leviandades, which are being orchestrated, using a serious police operation, to attack opponents,” he said.
Government departure
For ministers of both acronyms to leave the government, as it also affects Minister André Fufuca (sports), affiliated with progressives.
With the new resolution, the Union anticipates, in practice, the deadline for landing of affiliates occupying federal positions.
Since August, Union and PP have a party federation that brings together 108 federal deputies and 14 senators, configuring the largest bench in the House and the second largest of the Senate.
The driving of the group is divided between Rueda and the president of the PP, Senator Ciro Nogueira (PI).
Despite a wing closer to the government, União Brasil also houses opposition leaders, such as Goiás Governor Ronaldo Caiado, presidential candidate in 2026 and a declared critic of Lula.
