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Weekly Report - 18 April 2024 (WR-24-15)
BRAZIL: Tensions rise between Lira and Lula government
In a press conference on 11 April, the president of Brazil’s lower chamber of congress, Arthur Lira (Progressistas, PP), insulted Alexandre Padilha (Partido dos Trabalhadores, PT), the federal government’s institutional relations minister in charge of coordinating its legislative agenda with party whips of the left-of-centre ruling coalition, among other responsibilities. The tensions between Lira and Padilha have reportedly been building for quite some time, but the bad blood between the pair came to the fore following a vote on whether to uphold the arrest of federal deputy Chiquinho Brazão (União Brasil), whose party is allied with Lira’s PP.
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