One day after a defeat in Congress, Lula meets with president of União Brasil

One day after the government’s historical defeat in Congress, with the overthrow of the decree that increased the Financial Operations Tax (IOF), President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva received the president of União Brasil, Antonio Rueda, at the Planalto Palace, on the morning of Thursday (26).

All party representatives in the House voted for the overthrow of the decree. A wing from União Brasil also defends the delivery of ministries occupied by representatives of the acronym and the departure of the government.

Participated in the meeting – which was not on the official agenda of Lula – the Minister of Institutional Relations, Gleisi Hoffmann; Tourism Minister Celso Sabino, one of the representatives of União Brasil in the government; and the chairman of the presidency, Marco Aurélio Santana Ribeiro.

According to government members, the conversation was previously scheduled and did not occur due to Wednesday’s defeat (25) in Congress. The subject entered the agenda, but it was not the central theme of the meeting, according to the participants.