Overview

• Lula opened the Afonso Brito daycare in Breves, a project started in 2011 and cited by the Education Ministry as one of more than 100 stalled works in the region financed via the FNDE.
• In Belém, the president is reviewing the near-finished Porto Futuro II complex, including the Museum of the Amazônias, with further site visits Friday to the Canal da União macrodrenage works and Parque da Cidade, the COP30 venue.
• The agenda includes announcements of new drainage investments and the inauguration of the Parque Linear da Nova Doca before the delegation returns to Brasília.
• Demissionary Tourism Minister Celso Sabino, who submitted his resignation after União Brasil ordered appointees to leave the government, is accompanying the trip at Lula’s request.
• A succession dispute over the Tourism post is underway, with Sabino backing executive secretary Ana Carla Machado Lopes as names such as Marcelo Freixo (PT) and André Figueiredo (PDT) are floated, while União Brasil still retains indirect influence through Senate-linked nominees and dozens of affiliates in federal posts.