in 2006, mercury openly opposed to luiz inácio lula da silva's reelection. this has drawn criticism from other artists, such as zeca baleiro, who accused her of being favored by the late antônio carlos magalhães, a controversial oligarch from bahia (which she denied vehemently). later that same year, in an interview to "folha de s.paulo", mercury declared she was against reelections in general. she also said to have voted for lula four times and that she was disappointed "by his first term (...), shocked with all these scandals". however, she said to hope that "brazil will now have the four years of lula that we hoped it would be in the first term."