Deputy of the PL signs ally in charge in the Lula government – 05/19/2023 – Power

Federal deputy João Carlos Bacelar (PL-BA), affiliated with the largest opposition party and coreligionist of former president Jair Bolsonaro, placed an ally in office in the Lula (PT) government.

After Bacelar’s indication, the lawyer Otávio Alexandre Freire da Silva was appointed to command the regional office of the SPU (Superintendence of the Union’s Heritage) in Bahia. The nomination was published on May 12 in the Official Gazette of the Union.

wanted by Sheet this Friday (19), the deputy said he was in transit and could not talk about it. Governing federal deputies, however, confirmed that the nomination for the SPU came from João Carlos Bacelar.

Known as Jonga Bacelar, the deputy is part of the root wing of the PL, which was already in the party before Bolsonaro’s affiliation in 2021, and is close to the party’s president, Valdemar Costa Neto.

The deputy was allied with the then governor of Bahia, Rui Costa (PT), today Minister of the Civil House, but he supported Bolsonaro in the presidential elections of 2018 and 2022. He became deputy leader of the Bolsonaro government in the Chamber of Deputies.

Since Lula’s election, however, he has moved closer to the new government in votes in the National Congress. Just last year, he voted in favor of the PT in the Transition PEC. This week, he was one of the deputies in favor of the urgency of voting on the new fiscal framework.

In all, 29 of the 99 PL deputies voted in favor of the urgency of voting on the fiscal framework. In an interview with GloboNews on Tuesday (16), Valdemar Costa Neto said that about a third of the party’s bench in the Chamber should vote in favor of the project.

The lawyer appointed to the SPU has no history in Bolsonarism. In 2018, he signed a public petition in favor of Lula’s candidacy for the Presidency, which ended up being barred by the Electoral Justice.

President of the PL in Bahia, former Citizenship Minister João Roma, has stated that internal dissent generates discomfort, but rules out punishment for parliamentarians who align themselves with the government.

“We are not going to turn the party into a court. Every parliamentarian owes satisfaction to his voters,” Roma said a month ago in an interview. Sheet.

Bahia’s PL has three federal deputies, but João Carlos Bacelar is the only one who joined the Lula government. More aligned with Bolsonarism, deputies Captain Alden and Roberta Roma remain in opposition.