Alcolumbre to approve União and PP support for Flávio after Lula crisis

In Brazil, around 1 May 2026, Alcolumbre was expected to approve União and PP backing Flávio after a crisis with President Lula. The Senate rejected Messias’s nomination to the STF, which El Mundo described as an unprecedented defeat in 132 years for Lula. Messias told Lula he would leave the AGU and considered leaving the government; Lula asked him to stay.

Paulinho da Força celebrated the overriding of Lula’s veto on dosimetria and said the government is weak. Haddad said only ‘collective brainwashing’ explains why Lula and Flávio are tied in the polls. Judges asked Lula to nominate a woman for the STF seat Messias lost. Lula keeps backing Pacheco, but Messias’s rejection could complicate an alliance in Minas Gerais. O Globo wrote that Lula is set to end his term without delivering some promises to workers.