Pressured by Centrão’s ‘steamroller’, Lula chooses to shield PT supporters and corner Marina in the MP of Ministries

2023-05-27 12:10:07

President shields the Civil House from changes promoted by Congress and accepts wear and tear involving the environment to prevent the text, which organizes the structure of his government, from expiring

Playback/ YouTube – Workers’ PartyAfter the ‘tractor’ of Congress, Lula said that ‘the game has begun’ and promised to negotiate with parliamentarians to revert changes

The president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (PT) until it tried to minimize the crisis involving the provisional measure (MP) that restructures the Esplanada dos Ministérios, by saying that the changes promoted by the National Congress were something “normal”, but the balance of the week is clear: the government short-circuited in front of the Centrão steamroller, which emptied two portfolios that represent the backbone of its management, the Environment os Native Peoples, two of the main banners of the electoral campaign that led him to an unprecedented third term. Faced with the realization that there would be no way to contain the impetus of an eminently conservative Parliament, Lula played to shield the heart of his administration, the civil houseand accepted the wear and tear to prevent the MP from expiring – the text expires on Thursday, 1st.

The approval of the deputy’s report Isnaldo Bulhões (MDB-AL) by 15 votes to 3 in the mixed commission created to analyze the MP opened up a division between Lula’s allies. the minister Alexandre Padilha, responsible for political articulation, celebrated the agreement signed with the parliamentarians. The leader of the government in Congress, Randolph Rodrigues, treated the score as a victory, on the grounds that the emedebist’s opinion served 90% of the government’s interests. The profile of the PT in the Senate followed the same line. It failed to match the Russians: the party’s president, Gleisi Hoffmann, used Twitter to criticize the position of Congress. “A whole restructuring of ministries and positions was carried out to embrace Brazilian diversity and the needs of the State and now the right wants to change everything in Bolsonaro style, especially harming the indigenous area. Speaks seriously! The government project elected by the people is that of Lula, ”she published. The next day, the Senate caption page shared a video in which the senator Humberto Costa (PT-PE), states that PT members will “fight to return the original text”. “Pressure your congressman and your senator so that he does not allow backlashes,” he wrote. Regardless of the current majority in the administration, the fact is that the Planalto witnessed a clear demonstration of strength by deputies and senators, who exposed Lula’s difficulty in keeping the first measure of his third government in place: the ministerial composition .

The text approved by the mixed commission provides for the emptying of the ministries of the Environment, which will lose the Rural Environmental Registry (CAR), the National Water Agency (ANA) and the National System of Information on Basic Sanitation (Sinisa) from their attributions. , the National Information System on Solid Waste Management (Sinir) and the National Water Resources Management System (Singreh), which migrated to the Ministry of Cities, of Jader Filho (MDB), and of Original Peoples, which saw the collegiate chancellor the transfer of the demarcation of indigenous lands, the existential reason of the portfolio, to the Ministry of Justice. A Lula minister with a seat in Congress heard by the report recognizes the impact of the decision, but speaks of seeing “the glass is half full”: “We managed to keep the PPI in the Civil House, at a time when Minister Rui Costa is in the crosshairs of dome of the legislature. losing the PPI would mortally wound the heart of our government”. The government was also the victim of a trap by Congress: after the crisis involving the mayor, Arthur Lira (PP-AL), and the Senate, Rodrigo Pacheco (PSD-MG), on the rite of processing the MPs, the text actually began to be analyzed in the last days of May. The project still needs to be analyzed in the plenary sessions of both Houses. with little time until the date on which the provisional measure will expire, June 1, Lula found himself cornered, with no time to negotiate. If the MP of the Ministries were to expire, in addition to the symbolism of seeing the initial kick-off of the management lose effect, the structure of the Bolsonaro government would once again be in force, which could imply the collapse of the Federal Executive, since Lula proposed significant changes in the Esplanada’s organizational chart. . Thus, there was no other alternative: the President of the Republic handed over the rings to preserve the fingers.