PR no longer accepts lunch invitations.
Still resentful towards Dilma, the party led by Lincoln Portela announced that it will no longer participate in lunches with the PMDB to discuss the voting agenda for projects of interest to the government.
President Dilma Rousseff is facing yet another crisis, in addition to the global economic crisis and the resignation of ministers and advisors due to corruption allegations. The PR party, an ally, informed the leader of the PMDB in the Chamber of Deputies, Henrique Eduardo Alves (RN), today that it will no longer participate in the allied base's lunches to discuss the voting agenda for projects of interest to the government.
The PR party is resentful of the government for the way President Dilma handled the wave of accusations against the Ministry of Transport and its affiliated agencies (DNIT and Valec), which are run by the party.
The "clean sweep" ordered by the president culminated in the dismissal of more than 20 people in the ministry. Just yesterday, after allegations surfaced in the Ministry of Agriculture, Senator Blairo Maggi (PR-MT) expressed dissatisfaction with the treatment given by the president to the Minister of Agriculture, Wagner Rossi, of the PMDB party. "What we want is for the same treatment to be given as in the case of the PR [Minister of Agriculture], to clean house, remove them, and then discuss. Otherwise, there are double standards," said Maggi.