Abstract
The paper presents some reflections on the first six months of the new government, taking into account the evolution of the conjuncture in this short period. In particular, it highlights its institutional difficulties in relation to a parliament that is mostly from the neoliberal right and extreme right, and with a strong physiological connotation – which characterizes Brazilian “coalition presidentialism” and prohibits any type of structural change that reduces social inequality. And he points out that the confrontation and overcoming of these difficulties, even if partial, cannot rely solely on Lula’s negotiation capacity at the institutional level; without popular mobilization, which expresses in the streets the effective desire for structural changes as explicitly done in the electoral campaign, the correlation of forces will not become, fundamentally, more favourable.
Key words
Elections 2022; Third Lula government; Coalition presidentialism; Public policy; Fight against inequality