Lula rules out changing political articulation after defeat in Congress and defends Padilha – 06/05/2023 – Politics

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) came out in defense of the Minister of Institutional Relations, Alexandre Padilha, after the government’s expressive defeat in Congress and said that “under no circumstances” would he consider changing the political articulation.

“Padilha is the country’s best in terms of political articulation,” he said in London, where he accompanied the party for the coronation of Charles III.

Lula’s first expressive defeat in the Legislature occurred with the overthrow in the Chamber of changes made by the federal government to the Sanitation Framework, on Wednesday night (3), by 295 votes to 136.

It had almost total support from MDB, União Brasil and PSD, parties that together received a total of nine ministries from Lula, showed a legion of infidels and signaled a series of messages to the federal government.

Lula himself had publicly accused Padilha on Thursday (4). “I hope he [Padilha] have the ability to organize, to articulate, which he had in the council, within the National Congress. That will make life a lot easier,” he said in a speech in Brasília, at the launch of the Economic and Social Development Council, the Council, which will be headed by the minister.

Lula also said in London that he was resuming “public policies that worked”, with which, according to him, “the minister will be prohibited from having an idea” —a criticism of proposals by members of the government in recent months without prior agreement with the articulation of the Highland.