Brasilia_ Crucial decisions are expected to be made in Brazil this week regarding the future of the governing coalition led by the Workers'' Party (PT), Prensa Latina reports.

The first action will be the official definition, by the co-governing Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB), about whether it will remain in office with the PT, a decision that must be made on Tuesday at a meeting of its national leadership.

For many, the PMDB's pullout from the government may be considered a consummated fact, as some of its main leaders assured recently.

According with ex Civil Aviation Minister Eliseu Padilha, who is the right-hand man of Vice President Michel Temer, the fact that each of the two political groups is trying to run in the 2018 presidential election with its own candidate makes it impossible to continue together.

Padilha recalled in an interview with the newspaper Jornal do Comercio that at the recent congress of the PMDB, the government was criticized for six hours and the clamor to break away with the PT was constant.

The president of the PMDB and of the Legislative Assembly of Rio de Janeiro, Jorge Picciani spoke in similar terms and repeated that the party's leadership agrees to break up with President Dilma Rousseff.

Picciani assured that the PMDB in Rio de Janeiro had a different stance, in defense of the government, but he pointed out that "the situation changed" after statements by PT Senator Delcidio Amaral, and due to the impossibility of eliminating the differences to reach minimum consensus.

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