Lula will meet the military after exposing suspicions – 01/17/2023 – Politics

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) should have a meeting by Friday (20th) with the Minister of Defense, José Múcio, and the commanders of the Army, Air Force and Navy to discuss the modernization of the Armed Forces.

The meeting will take place a week after the PT member showed great distrust with the military who work in security at the Planalto Palace due to the invasion of the headquarters of the Three Powers.

This Tuesday (17), Lula dismissed 40 military personnel who worked in the Administration Coordination of the Alvorada Palace.

Rui Costa (PT), Minister of the Civil House, had a meeting with Múcio and the heads of the Armed Forces this Tuesday and announced that he will try to fit in Lula’s agenda a meeting with the heads of the military until Friday.

He defended the punishment of those responsible for destroying the palaces of Brasília, but said that this was not the subject of the meeting.

The meeting with Lula, according to him, will not have that purpose either. Costa stated that one of the possibilities to leverage investments in the Armed Forces is to establish public-private partnerships.

“Other nations in the world, for example, large and developed nations, make PPP projects to equip their Armed Forces. With this, they are able to anticipate investments that would not be possible if they were to depend only on annual budgetary resources”, he stated.

According to him, the type of investment required by the Armed Forces is suitable for establishing partnerships between the State and the private sector, as these are long-term contracts.

In addition to Múcio, the commander of the Army, Júlio Arruda, of the Navy, Marcos Oslen, and of the Air Force, Marcelo Damasceno, participated in the meeting.

The head of the Civil House also announced that Lula should have a series of trips in February. He said that the objective is to make “match schedules of inaugurations with the launch of national programs in priority areas”.

It is expected to go to Rio de Janeiro to launch a program to reduce surgery queues, to Pará “to announce the resumption of public investment and acceleration of private investment in basic sanitation” and to Bahia for the inauguration of new condominiums in the My home, my life.

The meeting takes place after Lula complained about the performance of the Armed Forces during the coup acts of the last day 8. At breakfast with journalists last week, the president publicly defended Múcio, but also criticized the military.

“This is the image I have of the Armed Forces. Armed Forces that know that their role is defined in the Constitution. The Armed Forces are not the moderating power as they think they are. The Armed Forces have a role in the Constitution, which is defense of the Brazilian people and our sovereignty against possible external enemies. That is the role of the Armed Forces and it is defined in our Constitution. That is what I want to be done well”, said the PT, at breakfast with journalists at the Planalto Palace .

Such as Sheet showed, Múcio was criticized, privately, by the president himself.

According to his allies, Lula complains that the minister has underestimated security threats, betting on the gradual departure of Bolsonaristas camped in front of the Army barracks instead of determining their withdrawal.

According to reports from these interlocutors, the president also considers that Múcio lacked firmness in his relationship with the commanders of the Armed Forces and that the minister would not have exercised any influence over them.