Overview

• An executive resolution requires all party members holding federal posts to request dismissal within 24 hours, with noncompliance treated as party infidelity subject to disciplinary action.
• The order covers ministries and positions in federal agencies, foundations, state-owned companies and mixed-capital firms, and it immediately implicates Tourism Minister Celso Sabino, who is filiado to the party.
• Uncertainty persists over appointees linked to Senate president Davi Alcolumbre’s personal quota, with reports differing on whether Communications Minister Frederico Siqueira and Development/Regional Integration Minister Waldez Góes must leave.
• The party coupled the ultimatum with a statement of “irrestrita solidariedade” to Rueda, rejecting media reports about alleged links to Operação Carbono Oculto and suggesting political motivation in the timing.
• The accelerated exit formalizes the União Progressista federation’s earlier decision to depart the governing base, reshaping congressional bargaining by removing a large bloc from Lula’s coalition.