Lula’s government announced the slogan “Brazil is one nation” after a speech at PT

The tone of the speeches at the event was generally polarizing with Bolson’s. The head of the government in the House of José Guimarães (PT-CE) this Saturday, the 9th, reinforced the idea that the country will be divided in 2024 because of the elections. “Lula set the tone last night (Friday). It will again be a dispute between Lula and Bolsonaro. And we need to prepare PT. For this, we need to mobilize in every city,” said the deputy. “We have to conduct a programmatic and ideological dispute with Bolsanism in all cities of the country,” he added.

Institutional Relations Minister Alexander Padilla, responsible for the government’s political coordination with Congress, followed the same line in his speech and said that some of the mayoral candidates in 2024 are “pure juice of Bolsonaroism.” “We must fight this competition and secure victory over them in the municipal elections,” he said.

“We must defeat in each city those candidacies that are an expression of Bolsanism based on a coup d’état,” continued the Minister of Political Articulation. Padilla also mentioned the coup that took place a week after Lula’s inauguration, when extremists invaded Planalto, Congress and the Federal Supreme Court (STF). “And we will not rest until we investigate and convict all those who planned, financed and carried out the January 8 coup.”

Padilla also referred to the PT’s revenge against Operation Lava Jato and current senator Sergio Mora (União Brasil-PR), who ordered the arrest of Lula in 2018 on corruption charges. After Bolsonaro won the elections that year, the former judge became the minister of justice in the new government. Lula’s convictions were later overturned by the STF, and the Court found Moro “biased”.

“President Lula will end the year by appointing his former lawyer, who clashed with Moreau in Lava Jato, as Minister of the Federal Supreme Court and by appointing the Minister of Justice, who came first in Moreau’s contest,” said the Minister of Institutional Relations in connection with , respectively, Cristian Zanin and Flavio Dino, chosen by Lula for the vacancy in the highest instance of the Brazilian judicial system this year.