Lula's 'superministers' face barriers due to leadership

Lula's centralized management and the prohibition of the debate over his succession make it difficult to define a possible political heir. With the government in crisis and while President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva adopts a centralizing stance, in the view of his assistants, ministers of national importance such as Fernando Haddad (Finance), Simone Tebet (Planning), Marina Silva (Environment), Rui Costa (Civil House) and Geraldo Alckmin (Develop…