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Weekly Report - 28 August 2025 (WR-25-34)
BRAZIL: Lula demands loyalty from right-of-centre ministers
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva held a cabinet meeting on 26 August in which he said that any cabinet minister not willing to defend the government should resign. This has been interpreted as a warning to the centrist and conservative parties of the so-called ‘centrão’ given cabinet ministries in the left-of-centre Lula government in exchange for congressional support. But ahead of next year’s presidential elections, some centrão parties, such as Progressistas (PP) and União Brasil (União) are signalling closer alignment with right-wing opposition figures rather than with Lula.
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