The president-elect of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, highlighted this Thursday the participation of 11 women at the head of the next executive portfolios of the country, when he announced the 16 ministers that were missing to compose his Government.
“I think that with the ‘misgovernment’ to which Brazil has been subjected for all these years, we will have to work twice as hard to recover. I am happy because there have never been so many female ministers in all the governments of Brazil,” said Lula da Silva, along with two of the women nominated, Marina Silva and Sónia Guajajara, who will take office as Ministers of the Environment and of Indigenous Peoples, respectively, on January 1, 2023, along with the future Head of State and other ministers.
“We are going to have a woman president of Caixa Económica Federal and a woman president of Banco do Brasil,” he added, at an event in the Brazilian capital to announce the composition of his ministerial team.
In total, the future Brazilian president chose 11 women for his executive, including 37 portfolios. The former presidential candidate Marina Silva returns to the Ministry of the Environment, which she held between 2003 and 2008, under the Presidency of Lula da Silva, while Simone Tebet, third in the first round of the presidential elections and a supporter of Lula da Silva in the second return, will be headed by the Ministry of Planning and Budget. The indigenous leader Sónia Guajajara, who appeared with a headdress, a typical adornment, will head the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples.
In the announcement made today, Lula da Silva appointed General Gonçalves Dias to the post of Institutional Security; Paulo Pimenta for the Communication Secretariat; Carlos Favaro for the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock; Waldez Góes for the Ministry of Integration and Regional Development; André de Paula for the Ministry of Fisheries; Carlos Lupi for the Ministry of Social Welfare, Jader Filho for the Ministry of Cities and Juscelino Filho for the Ministry of Communications.
Alexandre Silveira was also appointed to the Ministry of Mines and Energy; Paulo Teixeira for the Ministry of Agrarian Development; Ana Moser for the Ministry of Sports; Daniela Sousa Carneiro for the Ministry of Tourism and Renan Filho for the Ministry of Transportation.
Source: TSF
