President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva gathered all his 38 ministers for a celebratory lunch, this Friday (20), at Palácio da Alvorada. The meeting, which began around 1pm, lasted around two hours. There was no press statement. This was the last ministerial meeting of the year, one day after Lula returned to Brasília, after undergoing health procedures in São Paulo.
The president is expected to spend the end of the year festivities in the federal capital. The medical team released Lula to carry out his activities normallywith the recommendation not to do physical exercise. After a domestic accident on October 19, in which he hit his head, Lula needed to drain a hematoma in the region between the skull bone and the brain. The surgery was performed on December 10, followed by another procedure to reduce the risk of new hematomas forming.