PT ministries lose names with electoral calendar – 04/05/2024 – Power

The advance of the election year is already beginning to impact the technical staff of the Lula (PT) government. About six months before the municipal elections, departments such as Education and Labor are already identifying losses of people seeking positions in city halls.

The MEC (Ministry of Education) is already experiencing changes. The departure of No. 2 in the portfolio, Izolda Cela, is taken for granted within the department and behind the scenes of Ceará politics.

Cela, who was tipped to be minister, is a strong name in the dispute for the Mayor of Sobral, in the interior of the state. It is not ruled out that the executive secretary of the MEC could compete for the position in Fortaleza.

She joined the PSB in February, alongside former governor Cid Gomes. With a discreet profile, Izolda did not announce his departure within the MEC, but technicians consulted by the report even see a strong convenience in this move.

Her partnership with the Minister of Education, Camilo Santana (PT), did not appear to be as aligned as expected. Izolda would not have lived up to the expectation of being the “central engine” of the department’s technical work. Her departure must represent a strong rearrangement in the folder structure.

When questioned, the MEC did not respond. The report also sought out Izolda, who did not respond.

The folder has already had a loss. Minister Camilo Santana’s right-hand man in the portfolio, Janaína Farias (PT-CE) left the ministry at the end of March.

With plans to run for mayor of Ceará in Crateús, Janaína took over Camilo’s own seat in the Senate, for whom she is the second substitute – since the beginning of the year the vacancy was occupied by the first substitute, also PT member Augusta Brito.

“The party’s indication is for my pre-candidacy for Mayor of Crateús. I have done a lot of work in politics in Ceará and they recognize me for that,” she told Sheet.

The work in the Senate, where she will remain until August, is part of Janaína Farias’ electoral strategy.

Close to Camilo since the time he was governor of Ceará, Janaína had great influence on the minister’s political agenda at the MEC. Last year, she stopped being a special advisor and became secretary of Information Management, Innovation and Evaluation of Educational Policies.

The subfolder did not exist until then. It was created, largely, to house it and guarantee the MEC access to more information from other bodies linked to the body.

Survey of Sheet together with the portfolios, it showed that three of them — all commanded by the PT — will have losses of national secretaries or advisors to ministers: in addition to Education, Labor and Agrarian Development, they have also registered this movement.

The other ministries stated that either they have not yet been informed about departures, or that there is no forecast of staff who will run in the elections.

This scenario, however, can be changed due to the non-compliance deadlines defined by the Electoral Court. Electoral legislation provides that to run for mayor, national secretaries must leave their positions four months before the election, while advisors must leave their positions three months.

To run for the position of councilor, secretaries must be disqualified six months before the elections — a deadline that ends this Saturday (6) —, while advisors, three months.

In addition to these ministries, the Presidency’s Secretariat for Institutional Relations could lose two staff, according to reports. Mozart Sales and the Secretariat’s special secretary for federative affairs, André Ceciliano, are tipped to be vice-presidents and special advisor to the department.

Ceciliano is tipped to be deputy to the mayor of Rio de Janeiro, Eduardo Paes (PSD). Sales is now a pre-candidate for vice-president of the mayor of Recife, João Campos (PSB). Nominations are subject to party negotiations.

Sales is close to Minister Alexandre Padilha (PT), head of the Institutional Relations Secretariat. He participated in the creation of Mais Médicos and today manages amendments in the health area.

On social media, Sales shared records of his pre-candidacy registration for vice-mayor, on the 15th. “I defend the replication of the national alliance and the construction of unity within the party. Therefore, it is justifiable for the PT to apply for vice-mayor from Mayor João Campos”, he wrote.

In the Labor portfolio, the chief of staff of Minister Luiz Marinho (PT), Lene Teixeira, pre-candidate for Mayor of Ipatinga (Minas Gerais), will leave her position. Suzi Rodrigues, general superintendent of Labor in Pernambuco, pre-candidate for councilor in Recife, will also leave.

The president of Fundacentro (Fundação Jorge Duprat Figueiredo for Occupational Safety and Medicine), Pedro Tourinho, must run for Mayor of Campinas (SP).

The Ministry of Agrarian Development has already recorded a casualty: Patrícia Vasconcelos left her position on March 6 as national secretary of Family Agriculture and Agroecology. She will run for Mayor of Batalha (PI).

According to electoral legislation, ministers who wish to run for mayor must leave office up to four months before the elections. To be candidates for councilors, the deadline would be this Saturday (6).

So far there are no signs that ministers can leave the Esplanada to run for mayor, but names like Luciana Santos (PC do B), from Science and Technology, are remembered. She is tipped to try to command Olinda, in Pernambuco.