Program will be launched on Monday (April 30); announcement was made by Lula in a speech this Thursday (April 30)
The president (PT) announced, this Thursday (April 30, 2026), which debts can be negotiated with Novo Desenrola. The program will be launched on Monday (May 4). The announcement was made during the speech to the radio and TV network.
The debts that enter Desenrola 2.0 are:
- credit card debts;
- special check;
- rotary;
- personal credit;
- Fies (Student Financing Fund).
Desenrola 2.0 will be presented as the government’s main economic brand for the 2nd half of this year. The program aims to clear debtors’ names in time to recover credit for end-of-year purchases.
Among the central points of the new phase are:
- renegotiation of services: focus on electricity, water and retail bills;
- Treasury guarantee: use of the guarantee fund to reduce creditors’ risk and lower interest rates;
- target audience: expansion of the income range to serve the lower middle class and informal workers.
In his speech, the president stated that Brazilians who renegotiate their debts with the program will be blocked from all online betting platforms for 1 year.
“What you cannot do is renegotiate the debt and continue losing money betting on bets. It is not fair that women have to work even harder to pay off their husbands’ gambling debts. It was not our government that let bets enter Brazil, but it is our government that will put a limit on the destruction they have been causing”, declared.
The PT member has intensified his speech for the end of Brazilians’ debt. Arrived at Dario Durigan, publicly, so that he “Try to solve it” the problem of Brazilian debts.
Regarding Fies, the president had already said that the financing in the debt renegotiation program. “We have a problem because the debt of the Fies boys is increasing. We’re going to have to include them in our debt negotiation as well, because we can’t take away the dream of a young man who owes for his university course”stated Lula, in April this year.
Data from the National Education Development Fund owes, on average, R$46,000. In total, active contracts total R$93.8 billion still to be paid to the treasury.
Default reached 59.3% in 2024 – which means that funded students are in arrears. In 2015, defaulters represented 33% of beneficiaries.
Watch the speech (7min10s):
Just like in 2025, Lula should not participate in any events on May 1st. Strategy aims to avoid image degradation, considering the organized by trade unions in 2024.
6 x 1
One of the most important issues for Planalto is the end of the 6 x 1 scale. The agenda has been sold as a welfare policy for women, a group considered one of the focuses of the campaign – female voters represent the majority of voters.
On April 14, the government sent the to Congress. The project was built comprehensively. The text also introduces additional legislation to those dealing with specific categories, expanding the scope of the reform.
NON-SENATE DEFEAT
Lula’s statement was made 1 day after one of the biggest political defeats of the president’s 3rd term. On Wednesday (April 29), the Minister of General Advocacy of the Union, Jorge Messias, was to take up his seat on the Supreme Court.
Appointed by Lula on November 20, the AGU received 42 votes against and 34 in favor – 41 in favor would be needed for it to be approved.
With the rejection, the government to the President of the Upper House, (União Brasil-AP). It also carries out a fine-toothed comb to identify possible betrayals by congressmen from the allied base – including the PSB, the vice-president’s party.
As the speech was recorded on Wednesday (April 29), before Messias’ defeat in the Senate, there is no mention of the dispute with Congress in the message.
DOSIMETRY PL
Less than 24 hours after rejecting Jorge Messias’ nomination, Congress overturned, this Thursday (April 30, 2026), the president’s veto on the Dosimetry PL (Bill). The score in the Chamber was 318 votes against and 144 in favor of maintaining the measure. In the Senate, 49 to 24, respectively.
The project, which reduces penalties for crimes of coup d’état and abolition of the rule of law, benefits the former president (PL) and another 849 people convicted of the extremist acts of January 8, 2023. The overturning of the veto marks yet another defeat for the Lula government in its third term.
