Illustration of Lula and Alcolumbre reconciling with a handshake in an official Brazilian government office.
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Lula directs reconciliation with Alcolumbre after Messias rejection

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President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has instructed his aides to resume dialogue with Senate President Davi Alcolumbre following the rejection of Jorge Messias for the Supreme Court. Meetings took place this week to ease tensions between the executive and Congress. The episode highlighted accumulated friction between the institutions.

A new Datafolha poll released on June 20 shows Lula's government negative rating steady at 38%, with 32% positive and 29% regular.

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Brazil's Senate rejected Attorney-General Jorge Messias's nomination to the Supreme Federal Court (STF) on Wednesday (April 29, 2026), with 42 votes against and 34 in favor. The vote marks the first rejection of a presidential nominee to the Court in 132 years, since 1894. Messias had been approved by the CCJ committee 16-11 after an eight-hour hearing.

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva enacted the Anti-Faction Bill, now the Raul Jungmann Law, on Tuesday (24) with vetoes to provisions punishing independent agents for grave faction-like acts and allocating seized assets to states. The law introduces new offenses against ultraviolent criminal organizations, featuring harsh penalties and restrictions on prison benefits.

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President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva criticized the UN Security Council for being 'omissive' in seeking conflict solutions at the COP15 opening in Campo Grande (MS). He also announced expansions of protected areas in the Pantanal. The conference addresses migratory species conservation.

On the third anniversary of the January 8, 2023, attacks, President Lula fully vetoed the dosimetry bill at a Palácio do Planalto event, confirming earlier indications and rejecting penalty reductions for convicts including Jair Bolsonaro. Opposition vows to override, while a São Paulo rally against the bill saw clashes.

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Federal deputy Júlia Zanatta (PL-SC), a Bolsonaro ally, filed a request for information from the Civil House to clarify President Lula's involvement in Brazil's official stance on Nicolás Maduro's capture by the US operation in Venezuela. She seeks details on directives to omit Maduro's name and questions the exclusive condemnation of the American action. The request aims for an exception to the parliamentary recess due to the urgency of the events.

 

 

 

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