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Weekly Report - 13 March 2025 (WR-25-10)
BRAZIL: Opposition governor jumps ship
Brazil’s centre-right opposition Partido da Social Democracia Brasileira (PSDB) of former president Fernando Henrique Cardoso (1995-2003) was once the main rival of the left-wing Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, but the party has faded in influence over the past decade, and on 10 March it lost one of its few governors. Raquel Lyra, the governor of the north-eastern state of Pernambuco, who enjoys a good relationship with the Lula administration, left the PSDB and moved to the Partido Social Democrático (PSD), an ideologically flexible big tent party which currently holds positions in Lula’s cabinet.
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