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While roadblocks and protests in front of military barracks led by supporters of President Jair Bolsonaro have lost a lot of force and have become marginal acts, this Thursday the transition between the current government and the one that will officially take office on January 1 of the year started. comes.
Ciro Nogueira – minister of the Civil House, a position very similar to that held by heads of cabinet in other countries – received the elected vice president, Geraldo Alckmin, at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia; the national president of the Workers’ Party, Gleisi Hoffmann; and the former minister Aloizio Mercadante. The meeting was also attended by the Minister of the General Secretariat, Luiz Eduardo Ramos. “The conversation was very fruitful, very objective. The transition has already begun, “Alckmin said at a press conference at the venue after the meeting.
The future vice-president, appointed by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to lead the transition team, will visit on Friday, together with Hoffmann and Mercadante, who were at the forefront of the PT campaign, the Cultural Center Banco do Brasil, where the office from Monday transition will work, as reported by the portal metropolis.
Prior to this meeting at the Planalto Palace, Alckmin met with the budget general rapporteur, Senator Marcelo Castro, a member of the center-right Brazilian Democratic Movement, the sector led by former presidential candidate Simone Tebet, who supported Lula in the second round. During the meeting, Alckmin and the other PT members who accompanied them proposed the elaboration of a Proposed Reform of the Temporary Constitution (PEC). The idea of this initiative is that next year we can cover some expenses that do not fall within the budget already established. The PT’s expectation is that the approval of this initiative will allow it to finance, among other things, the payment of the social program Bolsa Família, which currently allocates 600 reais per month to its beneficiaries (just under 5,000 Uruguayan pesos).
The idea of the PT team is to begin the transition with a focus on access to federal government data, and then move on to appointing members of the future ministerial cabinet. This issue is of particular importance for the future government, which will have to articulate an alliance with other parties that will allow it to have some maneuvering power in Congress, which after the elections was markedly inclined to the right, with a strong presence of minded lawmakers in Bolsonaro.
Within the strategy put in place for the transition is the reduction of rhetorical duels with political rivals.
In this sense, on Thursday, before leaving the Planalto Palace, the Brazilian media reported that Alckmin had a brief meeting with Bolsonaro, who congratulated him on the electoral victory and expressed his intention to collaborate in the transition process. . The fact is significant, as it was not foreseen, but the president, knowing that the elected vice president was present, asked to be called to speak with him personally.
“It was good. The president invited us. We were leaving and [él] he reiterated what was stated by Minister Ciro Nogueira and the Minister General [Luiz Eduardo] Ramos on the willingness of the federal government to provide all information, collaborations, so that there is a transition driven by public interest, “Alckmin said about his meeting with Bolsonaro. Newspaper.
While his transition team has already started working, Lula is still on a beach in the state of Bahia, where he took a few days off after the intense election campaign with his wife, sociologist Rosangela Silva, better known with the his nickname Trick.
PT sources reported that Lula will arrive in Brasilia on Monday to begin a round of meetings. It is estimated that on Tuesday the 77-year-old leader of the PT will meet with Minister Rosa Weber, the president of the Federal Supreme Court, and also with the president of the Senate, Rodrigo Pacheco, who belongs to the center-right Social Democrat Party, one of the sectors with which the PT must articulate for having him as a possible ally in the Legislative. Lula should also meet with the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Arthur Lira, an exponent of the right-wing progressive sector.
