Lula Already Has Strategy to Govern with More Conservative Congress
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As soon as the election campaign is over, Brazil's president shows himself again as an ore-pragmatist. He reaches out to the conservative majority in Congress and announces his best term of office.
After a historic victory by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT), re-elected on Sunday for a fourth term, the government will have to change its relationship with Congress to negotiate the conditions of governance. Despite the strong message of the ballots, the Centrão will continue to give the letters in the Legislature, in a scenario of strengthening the right and the centre-right. Allies of the petist recognize that the correlation of forces in Par…
Lula must face a more hostile Congress in the next term, with the strengthening of the PL. According to experts, agreements with the Centrão and possible divisions in the opposition will be decisive to approve proposals and guarantee governance
Lula's meeting with Speakers of the House and Senate marks the beginning of talks on governance; names for Ministries also begin to be discussed
Political scientist who created the term 'coalition presidentialism' believes that the need for alliances between parties in Congress tends to make 'democratic right' regain lost protagonistism for 'radical right'.
Lula won the presidential election, but the PL left the polls much harder in Congress than he had when he arrived at the Plateau four years ago.
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