December 30, 2022

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Marcela Leiros – from Amazon Agency

MANAUS – President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) announced on Thursday, 29, the names of 14 new ministers, as well as the heads of Institutional Security and Social Communication. He also confirmed the names of the government leaders in the House of Representatives, the Federal Senate and the National Congress. Of the 37 high-ranking ministers, 11 are women.

The ceremony took place at the Brazil Bank Cultural Center (CCBB), in Brasilia. In this last announcement, Lula gave space to three centre parties that he hopes to have in his support base in Congress: PSD, MDB and União Brasil.

Some of the most expected names were confirmed: Marina Silva, for the Environment; Sonia Guajajara, for the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples; and Simone Tebet, for Planning. “After intense work, after much tension, after much conversation and much adjustment, we have finished assembling the government’s first line-up”, said the president-elect.

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See below the names announced:

• Ministry of Planning and Budget: Simone Tebet;
  
• Ministry of Environment: Marina Silva
  
• Ministry of Transportation: Renan Filho
  
• Ministry of Cities: Jáder Barbalho Filho
  
• Ministry of Social Security: Carlos Lupi
  
• Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock: Carlos Favaro
  
• Ministry of Mines and Energy: Alexandre Silveira
  
• Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture: André de Paula
  
• Ministry of Agrarian Development: Paulo Teixeira
  
• Ministry of Communications: Juscelino Filho;
  
• Ministry of Indigenous Peoples: Sonia Guajajara
  
• Ministry of Integration and Regional Development: Waldez Góes
  
• Ministry of Sports: Ana Moser
  
• Ministry of Tourism: Daniela Souza Carneiro;
  
• Cabinet of Institutional Security: General Gonçalves Dias;
  
• Secretariat of Social Communication: Paulo Pimenta;
  
• Government leader at the House of Representatives: José Guimarães;
  
• Government leader in the Senate: Jaques Wagner;
  
• Government leader in the National Congress: Randolfe Rodrigues.
  

Lula also said that he will announce the second line of the federal government after the inauguration. He promised that the state-owned banks Caixa Econômica Federal and Banco do Brasil will be headed by women and that the institutions for the rights of indigenous peoples, such as Funai and Sesai, will be headed by indigenous people.

See the other ministers already announced:

• Secretariat for Institutional Relations: Alexandre Padilha;
  
• General Secretariat: Márcio Macêdo;
  
• Office of the Solicitor General: Jorge Messias;
  
• Office of the Comptroller General: Vinicius Carvalho;
  
• Ministry of Social Development, Assistance, Family and Fight against Hunger: Wellington Dias;
  
• Ministry of Health: Nísia Trindade
  
• Ministry of Education: Camilo Santana;
  
• Ministry of Management and Innovation in Public Services: Esther Dweck;
  
• Ministry of Ports and Airports: Márcio França (PSB);
  
• Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation: Luciana Santos
  
• Ministry of Women: Cida Gonçalves
  
• Ministry of Culture: Margareth Menezes
  
• Ministry of Labor and Employment: Luiz Marinho
  
• Ministry of Racial Equality: Anielle Franco
  
• Ministry of Human Rights: Silvio Almeida;
  
• Minister of Development, Industry, Commerce and Services: Geraldo Alckmin;
  
• Minister of Finance: Fernando Haddad;
  
• Justice and Public Safety: Flávio Dino;
  
• Minister of Defense: José Múcio Monteiro;
  
• Minister of Foreign Affairs: Mauro Vieira.