Overview
- At the opening of Amapá’s first radiotherapy center, Senate president Davi Alcolumbre asked Health Minister Alexandre Padilha to convey his gratitude to President Lula.
- The conciliatory gesture followed friction after Lula chose Attorney General Jorge Messias for the Supreme Federal Court, bypassing Alcolumbre ally Rodrigo Pacheco.
- Messias’s Senate hearing, previously slated for December 10, was canceled or postponed and remains without a new date.
- Government political coordinators are working to set up a Lula–Alcolumbre meeting to ease the rift, according to multiple reports.
- The new Macapá facility received about R$16.3 million in federal investment, and Alcolumbre highlighted its relevance for Brazil’s North and Northeast.